Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

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

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

I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.

This Forest eats itself and lives forever.

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.