You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?

She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.

Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing...

Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premisses but in the nature and parts of premisses.

I have a trend of my own.

I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.

If think the pig was terrified because he was fully aware that after segment he was going to be fed to Al Roker.

Look at children... If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.

I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.