Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time..

The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed..

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before..

If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our li….

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description..

Anyone who has breast-fed knows two things for sure: The baby wants to be fed at the most inopportune times, in the most inopportune places, and the ….

what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things..

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too..

I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who kn….

I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when the baby boomers, who let's ….

... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other people's crises, confusions, and passages, en….

We take our vitamins, we go to exercise class, we put on our seat belts. And then something blindsides us and gives the lie to our carefully construc….

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America..

All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble..

More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun t….

[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I went to stay at my g….

There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance.

People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delic….

It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen ….

A finished person is a boring person..

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If….