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

When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.

Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

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.

It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk; the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.

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

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.