The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.

Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.

I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat.