I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

Logic and faith don't occupy the same side.

I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.

When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice I maintained for a long time, well into the writing life I had no idea I could ever have.

I've always felt like my nose is pressed to glass. I always feel a little bit like an outsider.

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.