You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.

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

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

Tears are okay [Morrie Schwartz]

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

Never tell a child that something it's too hard