Huddled around the fire of the alphabet.

The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.

Truth be told, there is not one day that goes by when I don't fall in love with someone, with something.

But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the same time bid me farewell. That is what real love is.

Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!

The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.

If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.

If you wanna judge it...then you need to expereince it..!

So maybe home is something that changes as we do, something that expands and contracts with time and loss.

Men are what they are because of what they do, not what they say.

Hillary Clinton is somebody of great intelligence. She is somebody who really loves this country, who speaks forcefully and well for American interests and values.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.

The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

We shot ['Sailcloth'] five days down in Cornwall, and you couldn't have asked for a more beautiful place. It was a couple of tough days at sea, but when I say tough it was still enjoyable.

Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?