Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.

It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence.

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely.

She had no God to plead to for mercy or luck. It would be true to say she depended instead on human kindness and painkillers.

... to be forceful was not the same as being powerful and to be gentle was not the same as being fragile...

Afterwards, I will have to tie the trees to bamboo poles so the wind will not determine their shape. A tree cannot be given form by the vagaries of the wind.

I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

You know what they say, Queenie: ALWAYS bet like you have a pair.

In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us.

Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors.

An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays.

Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

I know my voice is very distinctive because in a room of 100 people, my voice is always picked out.

Is this thing safe?" "Safe as life," Gansey replied.

The beginning is God. The end is action. Action is God creating-or God experienced.