You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.

I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.

The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.