What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

A flower is a plant's way of making love.

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?