The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.

There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever stop living under that big sky.

People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.

I write really well on the road.

For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.

Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.