The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

I hate to be like everyone else, but I'm rooting for San Antonio because I like teams that were built the old-fashioned way.

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.

My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing).

I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

I love you every day, Mom