You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.

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

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!

I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.