He said, Let there be light. And there was darkness.
Every time I left our apartment to go searching for the lock, I became a little lighter, because I was getting closer to Dad. But I also became a little heavier, because I was getting farther from Mom...
Every moment before this one depends on this one.
Embarrassment is the Parmalat of emotions.
Does it make you sad that we love the kids more than we love each other? That exact line—those words in that order—had been in the script for months.
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called th...
Dad used to say that sometimes you have to put your fears in order...
Being with him made my brain quiet.
Another reason it would be a good invention is that there are so many times when you know you're feeling a lot of something, but you don't know what the something is. Am I frustrated? Am I actually ju...
And she was in love.
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order...
What are your ghosts like?)(They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.)(This is also where my ghosts reside.)(You have ghosts?)(Of course I have ghosts.)(But you are a child.)(I am not a child.)(...
Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the...
I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.
There were so many different ways to die, and I just need to know which was his.
There are only so many times that you can utter It does not hurt before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain,...
Take tuna. Among the other 145 species regularly killed — gratuitously — while killing tuna are: manta ray, devil ray, spotted skate, bignose shark, copper shark, Galapagos shark, sandbar shark, night...
Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.
Wolf Blitzer had once again relieved the horrible tension of his purgatorial beard—neither a beard nor not a beard—with yet another new pair of glasses.
Why would a farmer lock the doors of his turkey farm?