And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you, and that's why we broke up.

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

It will be a very long time before I trust you ever, ever - OK, I trust you again.

I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.

I'm dumping the whole box back into your life Ed, every item of you and me. I'm dumping this box on your porch, Ed, but it's you, Ed, who is getting dumped.

You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead, I saw it as a sign of charming, which is why I didn't break it off right then and there.

Another gift, another secret, another time to lean in and kiss me.

Tomorrow, you promise yourself, things will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. And you disappoint yourself again and again.

We live mindfully by harvesting evocative scenes to pay attention to including the mountains and oceans, flowers and trees, love and friendship, music and literature, art and poetry.

I Wanna Be Rich Enough to Realize That I Can't Buy Happiness.

Sometimes, the emptiness comes to fill the space between my heart and my head. It consumes every thought, every corner of my mind, like demons that can’t be put to bed.

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong.

Don't put Banana and Hammock in the same sentence