It is better to lose than never to have had.

The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes

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.

Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent and feeling, by any sensible definition of the words. They can't hop into the back of a Volvo, but they can fetch, run and play, be mischievous, and reciprocate affection. So why don't they get to curl up by the fire? Why can't they at least be spared being tossed on the fire?

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.

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?