there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them.

One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

The true art of memory, is the art of attention

Language, as much as land, is a place. To be cut off from it is to be, in a sense, homeless.

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

You ever make fun of someone so much, you think you should thank them for all the good times you've had?

That is really the freedom that allows you to create something that is exciting because who knows what's true?

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

Beauty drawes more then oxen.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.