Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.

Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.

Grief, he said, is carnivorous.

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

... scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for.

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.