As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.

I like myself better when I'm with you.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.