“It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe.”

“You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.”

“Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.”

“We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.”

“...and then of course the music sprang up, lousy rock as bold and dull as a giant potato. “Love this song,” Todd said, like it was unusually brave to like what was number one on the radio...”

“And love, who can say the way it winds.. like a serpent in the garden of our untroubled minds”

“There is only laughing across the land as the car moves you along, on your way someplace with love in the car.”