You're not going to get to college - you're not even going to be qualified, even to go to a community college, if you don't address the basic problem of literacy in America. And there's no reason - no reason - for us to have that problem.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

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.

What's wrong with being number 2?

Lost love is still love.

Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.