It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

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

Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.

Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist.