As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.

Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-children's will be. But we learn to live with that love.

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.

I was more alone than if I had been alone.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.

I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.