Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

We live in all we seek.

Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.

The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.

Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.