The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

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

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.