He doesn’t believe in talking too much about art, especially while you’re looking at it. The pressure to appreciate is the great enemy of actual enjoyment. Most people don’t know what they like because they...

Sometimes pain is God’s megaphone, his only way to get our attention.

Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.

What to do with the past? There was so much of it.

He knew that he’d known her for less than a week, but now that she was gone he was continually probing his feelings for her, the way he might probe a sore tooth with his...

The advice he reads in Ann Landers – good advice as long as you don’t need it, perfectly sensible as long as you don’t have any use for it.

Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we’ve got.

However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads.

The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.