Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

We make the world most possible by helping the people we encounter be their most possible.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not no one else is going to do it.

Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.

My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding.

there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

I'd rather Apple cannibalize Apple than somebody else cannibalize Apple.