You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, 'There, you sons of bitches, don't lay a finger on it. That is a finished product.'" "But any country is still in the making. Always. That's just history, people have to see that.

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

Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.

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