My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?

What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.

What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.