Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.