God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to guide us. They are the promise of good fortune in a cloudless day, and the animals in the clouds; look hard enough, and you'll see them. Don't ask if they're real.

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.