He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.