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

I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then die, Alaska, because now, I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice.

We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night.

A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said. 'And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us.