Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.
There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.
There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.
Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.
I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.
Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.
Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow.