But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

But she's still afraid that the more she misses him--his face, his skin, the way he looked at her--and the more hope she has that she'll see him again, the more she has to lose.

If home isn't a place, what is it?''A feeling.

...even a poisoned, desolate childhood can be missed.

Freemasonry is a spiritual practice that good men of every spiritual practice can agree upon.

Sermonettes make Christianettes.

How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?

Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction!

People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.

You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

This ocean circulation, a northbound current that sinks and then moves southbound, tends to go through multi-decadal changes.