I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more.

I am drawn to the ways in which we are shaped by people and by place.