Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.

To be forgiven is to be loved

When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.

Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's safe in there, but you'll never go anywhere.

Requiring accountability while also extending your compassion is not the easiest course of action, but it is the most humane, and, ultimately, the safest for the community.

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help.

The vile are trampled beneath the feet of other pigs.

I refused to show my fear, lock it down, Huntress.

The best tonic for soreness is to do the movement that got you sore in the first place.

It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

It's just like high school. If you're a freshman or a sophomore, it's hard to tell the seniors who've been through two, three, playoff games what to do.