We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.

Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life.

One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second

I regret how much I believed in the future.

In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children, from prostitutes, family friends, travelers, and adulterous wives. Women said "I love you" without his ever speaking. "The more you love someone," he came to think, "the harder it is to tell them." It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say "I love you".

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.