As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

So many miracles have not yet happened.

She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved.

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

There's a notion of art in this country that you have to be nutty or special or "called" in order to be an artist. I believe the questions everyone should ask themselves are, "Do you want to do it? Are you willing to do it poorly? Are you willing to do the work of doing it? Are you willing to persist when everybody tells you it's silly?" If you're willing to do that, then you can do it.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.