In dividing the light, things are seen. And we notice ourselves.

It is almost as thoughsomething else is breathingquite close by, invisibly.The mystery of the names…Albizzia. Gleditsia.Aucuba japonica. AndI am listening, seeing. Seeing, like someone twice alive.

To be honest, and this is terrible to admit, I hardly read any teen mystery books at all.

Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.

Our health is what we make of it - give it attention and it improves, give it none and it subsides.

Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

That level of trust was what being in command was truly about--being able to lead someone not only down an unknown path, but also a seemingly wrong path, if the need called for doing so.

Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).

I do miss having someone to spoil, somebody that you can just sit with for a bit.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.

When I started CNN, I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.