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

I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.

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.

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.