Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.

I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

It's a great time to be alive.