In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a love disorder of one sort or another, and each has a story to tell - of love lost or denied, love twisted or betrayed, love perverted or shackled to violence. Broken attachments litter the office floors like pick-up sticks. People appear with frayed seams and spilling pockets.

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.