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

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

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

What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.

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

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

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.