It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.