but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

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.

I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.