I Want To Know Everything About You,

Wear Your Heart On The Page, And People Will Read To Find Out How You Solved Being Alive.

Journalism Taught Me How To Write A Sentence That Would Make Someone Want To Read The Next One. You Are Trained To Get Rid Of Anything Nonessential. You Go In, You Start Writing Your Article, Assuming A Person's Going To Stop Reading The Minute You Give Them A Reason. So The Trick Is: Don't Give Them One.

When My Mother Died, My Father's Early Widowhood Gave Him Social Cachet He Would Not Have Had If They Had Divorced. He Was A Bigger Catch For The Sorrow Attached.

They Say The Smart Dog Obeys But The Smarter Dog Knows When To Disobey.

We Can Only Die In The Future, I Thought; Right Now We Are Always Alive.