I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.

I love you present tense.

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.