Consequently, if Amy and I choose to bring new life into this world, it will be accomplished clinically, with fertility experts in a lab with petri dishes.

Don't want to clean other people's houses in your own clothes, my ass.

She's Callie Karlsen's sister, the woman that was brutally murdered for the lottery ticket that won that check you're holding there.

She wanted drugs, you wanted sex, things got a little weird.

You know, Elijah, I liked you better in that box, but, Klaus, my sire, you I owe the world, and I always show respect to my elders.

In a few minutes, there are gonna be feds all over this place, and I don't want them finding our Holy Grail.

Still clinging to that word after all these years, a bastard desperate for a daddy?

It must be nice to have everyone always looking to you for answers to their problems instead of waiting for you to cause a problem.

If there's someone that doesn't want these things, or hate them, that's fine.

So what troubles me is that I was at that place and somehow I'm at this place, and I just don't want to be the only one at this place.

I didn't want to pity myself, nor to be pitied, and I thought by organizing such a marathon, I'll be able to pay back to my community, build bridges with the outside world, and invite runners to come to Lebanon and run under the umbrella of peace.

Now I wouldn't necessarily ask for more stressful experiences in my life, but this science has given me a whole new appreciation for stress.

Glenn Lowry, the head of MoMA, put it best when he said, "We want visitors to actually cease being visitors.

Now, if you put that word into the web, as you may have done, you'll come up with millions of hits, and almost all of those sites are trying to sell you something to make you irresistible for 10 dollars or more.

I love you, whatever state you're in, and if you need me, I'll come and sit with you because I love you and I don't want you to be alone or to feel alone.

I don't want the poetry of the calligraphy to be broken, as it's art and you can appreciate it without knowing the meaning, as you can enjoy any music from other countries.

I grew up playing basketball when Michael Jordan played, I always wanted Air Jordans, my mother would never buy me Air Jordans, as soon as I got some money I bought Air Jordans -- literally, we all have the exact same story.

You may love or be someone who can't have kids or doesn't want to, who believes in marriage but also in divorce, who's from a culture where people don't really date the way we think of dating, or who just doesn't want to make out on the bus.

Before we fill our shopping carts and our landfills with extra items that we don't want, let's pause next time we are shopping online and think twice about what we all hopefully really do want: a beautiful Earth to call home.

Tell your daughters of this year, how we woke needing coffee but discovered instead cadavers strewn about our morning papers, waterlogged facsimiles of our sisters, spouses, small children.

They're also promising our young people the things that they crave: significance, heroism, a sense of belonging and purpose, a community that loves and accepts them.

Erika Moen, the cartoonist who illustrated my book, draws spontaneous desire as a lightning bolt to the genitals -- kaboom! -- you just want it out of the blue.