Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?

We write to make sense of it all.

But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They called you Sis. All your life people called you Sis, because that was what you were, or what you became - big sister, helpful sister, the one upon whom everyone depended, the one they all came to for everything from help with homework to a sliver under the fingernail.

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.