When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess.

Downstream is always someone else's up.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.