As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.

A sleeping man would miss the best of the evening, and the moonrise as well.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

I can only be myself, I'm sorry that's hell for you.

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

What you do makes you better at what you think. What you think makes you more effective at what you do.

The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.

I just don't want to give them my name and say, 'Do whatever you want.' I am trying to create my brand.

This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.