To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

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.

To think is not always to see.

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

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