But I had no idea who this person might be, or who any of the people might be who sat at that table and watched me at the door and claimed to have feelings not exactly for me, but at me.

And as he leaned in to kiss me, my eye saw his open mouth grow larger and larger until it seemed it could swallow me whole.

I find it increasingly difficult to speak of my feelings at will.

She was truly happy for the first time in her life, and it felt just like living in a small room painted all white, with windows looking out onto impenetrable forest.

The past was just a place where uncontrolled freaks you had never consciously decided to include in your life entered it anyway and staggered around, breaking things.

When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.

To a woman, the first kiss tells all about a relationship.

When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict.

Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is His spoken word.

To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

When I was little the sky was closer.

I know more English than Spanish, but I'm always a little embarrassed.

I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.