It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

I'd lost count of the disappointments.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?

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

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

If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?