Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.

She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.

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.

I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.