I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

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

If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

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.

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits.