I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.