"Sometimes I worry that we've all become workaholics - because getting through life can be really hard work. But...we need to log off, go home, and remember what it is to have dinner, conversation, and sex ... not necessarily in that order."

"Love is just like breathing when it's true."

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."

"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives . . . not looking for flaws, but for potential."

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

"If we ever leave a legacy, it's that we loved each other well."

"In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."