You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.

Will you wait for me forever?

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake.

In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms." I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. "I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms.

Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.