But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.

There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore her clothing with such utter naturalness and grace that she could have been a bird that had wrapped itself in a special wind as it made ready to fly off to another world. He had never seen a woman who wore her clothes with such apparent joy. And the clothes themselves looked as if, in being draped on her body, they had won new life for themselves.

The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.