In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.

Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times.

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?

You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.

Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.

The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.