here in the summer desert, winter found my blood
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.
You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.
Inaction counted as a choice.
But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.