I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we k….

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all..

Hope...which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it….

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some ap….

Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness..

A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and t….

Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pea….

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same..

Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine mist until it's just lonely particles flo….

...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing..

Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other..

The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong..

Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea….

The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation ….

Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of ….