My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.

You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

May you reach that level within, where you no longer allow your past or people with toxic intentions to negatively affect or condition you.

I can't bear literary snobbery.

Your words are determined by what dwells in you

Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do.

I could recall countless illustrations of men and women who have encountered Jesus Christ . . .Their whole lives have been transformed.

My dark secret is I’ve always wished I was Gatsby. As heartbroken as he was and as horrible a fate as he endured, I admired that he loved. It’s a difficult thing to do.

Rejoice as summer should...chase away sorrows by living.

When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

Teaching writing is a hustle.

Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.