If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. “Mary Beth,” Barb Wiggin said, “if you touch the Baby Jesus, I’m putting you in a cow costume.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action