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

A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.

I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.

The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can't own.

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.