as if all the years haven't dulled that moment. She's staring at a spot of air in front of it, and I know, in that spot of air, is her son.

I love lying here with you, under the books.

I'll never throw these small things away. There will never be a time when I don't want them, all the tiny parts of Cal that made a life.

That's what we think because we can't imagine what it's like to not exist.

Or as Gabe had done, to rescue your betrothed from some evil force. That appealed to him. But he'd yet to find a damsel in distress, oppressed by evil and in need of rescue.

embrace vulnerability

The first and great commandment is don't let them scare you.

Epitaph to a waiter: By and by God caught his eye.

The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.

I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.

The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

It would probably be too easy a cop out to say that just Republican males hate me. Though there's a large swath of them, for sure.

The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.