Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

The gift is for you...The surprise is for me.

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.