Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.

It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.