She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.

We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.

it is the nature of stars to cross

...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that even the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers - the outcasts - had cause for hope. And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope.

Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?

The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open and honest conversations.