Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.

It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.

And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives.

Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.