I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.

Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.

Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.

Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.

We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.