“Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there’s a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.”

I like Math because there’s only one right answer.

When you get pure joy out of ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’ or ‘seeing,’ that’s when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

If there is one thing I think I have accomplished, it’s that I always thought of myself as a very literal songwriter, and as I look at some of those older records.

I’m about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That’s the distance my left ear is from my right.

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.

Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.