I don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often a big difference in how much we love and understand each other and how little we’re understood or appreciated by people who spend their weekends watching basketball.

I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

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?

We invent what we love and what we fear.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.