I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Freedom is never free.

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Every Day you should reach out and touch someone