We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place.

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

A father is a man who fails every day.

When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.