It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?

What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.