Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.

It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace.

The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.

Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.

Well, then, what's the plan now? You can't stay here forever.'My plan was indeed to stay there forever.

My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.

I felt the nauseous shiver in my stomach—everything from rage to empathy to morning sickness—that I had grown used to and now thought of as being love.

The messages must be stuck somewhere in the tube of light underneath the ocean that connects London and New York.

Email is the scourge of our age, ' said Silvia. 'Email and cancer.

I was on the sidewalk, buffering, wondering if it was okay to follow people in real life.

No order, no pattern, just chaos. Lots of little universes separated by invisible screens . . .

You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!

These demands of life are so universal that either we like it or not, we are going to come across them one way or another. The response we give determines what our lives become.

If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

I'm a busy guy but I set aside quiet time every morning and every evening to keep my equilibrium centered on my own path. I don't like being swayed by anything that might be negative or damaging.

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

What is delayed is not lost.