Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.