Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

Hope keeps you alive.

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.

Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450

Never allow your life to be dictated by what you can see by sight, be guided by your inner vision.

I try to avoid stories that end with...and he was never seen again.

I've got my own toilet." -- Grace Harper

I was taught to deceive by a great deceiver. Jenny will embrace me as a good man. Just as you did...before tonight.

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear the story, and I hear it with the level of detail that breeds empathy.

One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.

I've found that limitations can be an artist's best friend sometimes.

And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.