You're staring, " Lana said."Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.

It's Sanjit. It's a Hindu name. It means 'invincible.'""That's great, " Lana said."Invincible. I can't be vinced.""That's not even a word, " Lana said."Go ahead: try to vince me, " Sanjit said.

No, " Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch.""Good, " Sanjit said."Good? Why good?""Because when you hold my hand, I don't want it to be work for you.

Where there is no consciousness, there is no time.

My son, Edward, at 4, to a neighbor boy who was being a pain in our backyard: "Oh, don't whine. my mom will throw you right out of here.

I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when I was, what? Eight years old? Nine? You killed yourself and then you came after us.

Scary discovery of the day: Most people who RT @yokoono's tweets do so without irony.

Our life together's like a tale with a happy end, no matter what turns it took in the way.

If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock?

All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.

Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith.

I run to be known as the greatest runner, the greatest of all time. I could not eat or sleep for a week after I lost in the (1992) Olympics. I have to win or die.