Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween.

Don't beat yourself up, " said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion...

Charlotte wondered if she would have recognized the crazy much earlier if he looked more like Steve Buscemi then Mr. Medieval Hotness.

I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.

No one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that he loves each of us--insecuritie s, anxieties, self-image, and all.

Republicans also took control of the Senate after gaining another seven seats. I haven't seen the GOP get this many seats since Chris Christie made an airline reservation.

There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy.

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

Once is more than generous for any lifetime.