<p>The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say$$$ but what we are unable to say.</p>

<p>Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was light-years away from me.</p>

<p>Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.</p>

<p>Real life is messy$$$ inconsistent$$$ and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.</p>

<p>But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you$$$ and even though I may never meet you$$$ laugh with you$$$ cry with you$$$ or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart$$$ I love you.</p>

<p>Love's pure free joy when it works$$$ but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.</p>

<p>We are stardust$$$ billion year old carbon. we are golden$$$ caught in the devil's bargain.</p>

<p>After all the highways$$$ and the trains$$$ and the appointments$$$ and the years$$$ you end up worth more dead than alive.</p>

<p>At the end of things$$$ The Blessed will say$$$ We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven. And the lost will say$$$ We were always in Hell. And both will speak truly.</p>

<p>A woman has to live her life$$$ or live to repent not having lived it.</p>