She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.

I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there's a shallowness there. That's not a bad thing, really.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

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.

We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.

I think after you live it's like before you lived.