You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one.

For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her eyes we see an entire realm of creatures we have never known so intimately before. Truly for people of all ages, Lynne Cox's adventure with the baby whale, Grayson, becomes a parable and an experience, thanks not only to the author's great and generous spirit, but through her immense gift for describing nature.

And then there came the pounding of another drum, as if another giant were coming yards behind him, and each giant, intent on his own drum, gave no notice to the rhythm of the other. The sound grew louder and louder until it seemed to fill not just my hearing but all my senses, to be throbbing in my lips and fingers, in the flesh of my temples, in my veins.

Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.

One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.