Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.