And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.

What we fear we often rage against.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on.

It's easier to die if others around you are dying.