[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

When heaven breaks, who fixes it?

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.

The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke.

His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.

Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.