The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.

Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.

You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.

Secrets tear you apart.

He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment." Worse than an unanswered prayer? "Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.