Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.

The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books.

It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.