This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.