I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

Rogerson, " I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?""In the open sea, " he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.

Your mother won a special reward, " she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

I would soar like a bird, solitary, unmated, but untrammeled.

In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.

The GOP's freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?

Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss?

One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life.

Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.