Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

God is a God of Lovingkindness.

There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.

I would prefer you not to say, "That was the most terribly written piece I've ever read." That would hurt me. But you don't think I'm the best person in the world? Well, alright.

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.