Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked. Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.