What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.