He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.

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.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.