And then the world exploded.

I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.

When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch of Hollywood move producers made up to sell more tickets in the Depression, when Dish Night kind of played out." Eddie laughed. Now I think that all of us are born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You...Eddie, you fill me up.

It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.

Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.