The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way.

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.

We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.

Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all.

As a kid, you await holidays with a wide-eyed, passionate, almost maniacal enthusiasm. Heavy breathing is involved.