I can't be married to another person for 30 years; I can't grow up with another person -- that just won't happen, not in this lifetime.

We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin

The real ceremony begins where the formal one ends, when we take up a new way, our minds and hearts filled with the vision of earth that holds us within it, in compassionate relationship to and with our world.

Especially being selected as a national merit scholar, I'm just fantastically proud of her, ... But it's just real tough knowing that that her mom couldn't be there. That's real hard.

That gave me the strength to put one foot in front of another and keep going, ... And that's what we're going to do.

It will never be the same,