If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready.

The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.

I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything.

I thought at times that poetry might be an elegant way of screaming.

Like many parents in middle age, he's quick to spot changes in the world, slow to note shifts in his own perspective.

Time only goes in that one direction.

There's a hard life for every silver spoon.There's a touch of gray for every shade of blue.That's the way I see life.If there was nothing wrong...Then there'd be nothing right.

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

Wisdom of the Ages "Assault and Battery" Weather forecast for the St. Louis Rams next Sunday in Seattle.

There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.

Our system is a mess, but 90 percent of America has insurance coverage.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.