“That scream left her mouth and entered my head, where it's been ever since, sometimes waking me up at night.”

“Initially they waited with hope, but as each hour passed, hope slipped away like the wind, the wind that as a small boy Ethan had once tried to capture with his tiny fingers.”

“You can lock a lion up in a room, if you want to, but you'll still hear it growling and clawing to get out.”

“I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.”

“Lifes journey does not take place down an easy roadway, as some might imagine. It takes place inside a giant house with a million doorways. Every day of our lives we are faced with decisions to mak...”

“She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.”

“The Clock on the Morning Lenape BuildingMust Clocks be circles?Time is not a circle.Suppose the Mother of All Minutes startedright here, on the sidewalkin front of the Morning Lenape Building, and ...”

“I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of P...”

“The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and...”

“It is certainly true that actions speak louder than words, but words become as monuments to thoughts.”

“Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.”

“Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds not stones are the true monuments of the great.”