Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often people get offended by it.

God is a God of Lovingkindness.

I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.

We have to recognize that it is a very, very painful thing for people to be exposed to their social community, to be exposed in the world, as not what they would have wanted to be seen as. This is very painful and difficult for people.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.