When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach that wasn't an ache but something different.

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.

She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

So be careful when you bend over.

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]

To conquer death you only have to die.

The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.

If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

It's really nice to know hard work does pay off.

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!