My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don’t have to finish books you don’t like.

I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

Because who can describe that look that triggers the memory of loved ones? Who can anticipate the frown, the smile, or the misplaced lock of hair that sends a swift, undeniable signal from the past? Who can ever estimate the power of association, which is always strongest in moments of love and in memories of death?

And never forget, there is memory.

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.