I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

Love...is the immovability of truth.

I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.

It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.

None of the ways people were talking about September 11 felt right to me. I don't buy into the way George W. Bush talks about it. I don't buy into the way the 9/11 commission talks about it. It isn't that I don't believe them. It's just that they're not the tellings for me.

You have to do something bad to do something good.