Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?

Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.