In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.
You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.
Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.
Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn't surprised, since she'd always had a thing for animals. She'd lectured me for days after I'd instigated the infamous hamster-and-hermit-crab fight. I'd viewed the fight as a testing of worthy opponents. She'd seen it as animal cruelty.
I need you,ʺ said Lissa. ʺI hear that from women a lot,ʺ said Adrian.
You're better than this. Better than whatever it is you're going to do now.
The future is always changing. If we had no choices, there'd be no point in living.
Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello
Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?
I'm still doing something I love to do.
If we want to be better than normal we must move from good intentions to what I call God intentions.