But reality had other ideas.

I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God's grace.

You've got to pick your roles really carefully. It's a lot more fun to play a layered woman, than just someone where what you see is what you get, by far.

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

Sometimes I mistake this for a universe that cares.

Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision.

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.