She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.

Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.

September 11 had such a strong visual component, the most visually documented event in human history. Nothing's ever been seen by as many people as that was. Our experiences of the day, our memories of the day are just so tied up in images of buildings falling and bodies falling.

I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.