I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.

For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and mine is this: that I will pay close attention to this world I find myself in. 'My heart keeps open house,' was the way the poet Theodore Roethke put it in a poem. And rendering in language what one sees through the opened windows and doors of that house is a way of bearing witness to the mystery of what it is to be alive in this world.