Strangers, he remembered, can tell you how old you are without trying. The looks you get or don’t get let you know exactly where you’re at, where you’re headed and where you can never go again.

People usually take decades to sort out their view of the universe, if they bother to sort at all. I did my sorting during one freakish summer in which i was ambushed by science, fame and suggestions of the divine.

True love is a tiny pearl, easily imagined and easily lost.

Something had snapped between us, and I had no idea how to glue it back together.

I pointed out how the eel grass lay flat on the beach, and asked them to imagine what it must be like to live in a forest that worked like a folding stage prop, going from three-dimensional to two-dimensional twice a day.

If you don’t feel any connection to the ocean, then ask yourself why your tears, blood and saliva contain about the same percentage of salt.

I was a fluke in a classroom full of flukes on a planet overpopulated by flukes.

The designated driver is not the person who's had the least amount to drink.

I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people.

The university?s legal counsel informed Judge Clark that the university was not willing to enter into settlement discussions with Coach O?Brien or his attorneys. That led to the judge?s decision to cancel the mediation.