I am sure that inspiration will strike multiple times - it always does.

Seems to me that there is no better way to experience the depth of loss than after the fact. No more powerful instrument of imbuing value in an object than parting with it.

I've always been creative verbally, had a flair, my teachers said - wrote great expository essays in elementary school, scribbled little poems, embraced all writing assignments. And all along I read voraciously - first in Russian and then, after we left the USSR, in English, and even Spanish.

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.

The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.