The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have di… - John Irving

The Winkles appeared to greet the morning vigorously. Although Homer had never heard human beings make love, or moose mate, he knew perfectly well that the Winkles were mating. If Dr. Larch had been present, he might have drawn new conclusions concerning the Winkles' inability to produce offspring. He would have concluded that the violent athleticism of their coupling simply destroyed, or scared to death, every available egg and sperm.

I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who mattered most to us are all wrapped up in parenthesis