Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten

You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.

Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd that one diem.

I think maybe I know why,' she finally said. 'Why?' 'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.

The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.