You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings? Oh my Lord, yes. Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. I guess I woul...
When we'd gone to Disneyland, the tree house had been my favorite thing in the whole park. If only I'd had no parents watching my every move, if only I'd been a happy, carefree orphan, I'd have hidden...
We should get you Linux, too. Nobody uses Windows anymore.
There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science
There's no data to suggest that I can make you love me whatever I do.
There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author’s back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up...
The secret to a good life, he told me once, is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.
The rest of the night was an endless dream sequence directed by David Lynch
No more politics, Grandma Donna had said as a permanent new rule, since we wouldn't agree to disagree and all of us had access to cutlery.
Life is all arrivals and departures.
I’ve read that no loss compares to the loss of a twin, that survivors describe themselves as feeling less like singles and more like the crippled remainder of something once whole. Even when the loss...
I’m unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. A
Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat wit...
Intended as a dig at my father, the enterprise being another of science’s excesses, like cloning or whisking up a bunch of genes to make your own animal. Antagonism in my family comes
WHERE YOU SUCCEED will never matter so much as where you fail, I said.
They never reminisced about the time they had to drive halfway back to Indianapolis because I’d left Dexter Poindexter, my terry-cloth penguin (threadbare, ravaged by love—as who amongst us is not)
The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you’ve gone over that cliff.
The men responsible were charged with grand theft. Their original defense, that dolphins are persons (humans in dolphin suits, one defendant said), was quickly thrown out by the judge. I’m unclear on...
The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true,only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Langua...
Nor did I respond with the obvious, that my brother might very well go to jail, probably would someday, but he would never ever call. Three words were scratched in ballpoint blue on the wall above the...