You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me.

I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.

Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.

Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.