My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home, or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.