You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

A relationship takes place between two people across space and time, and suddenly no one seems like a stranger.

Thinking little of yourself is not humility.

Only when we feel the story in each of its moments or places are we able to tell it properly.

I never realized how much I loved life until I knew it was being taken away.

Electric clocks reveal to you Precisely when your fuses blew.

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

Hillary Clinton has been in politics for the same reason I am - because we can improve other people's lives by doing this work.

After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners.