National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.

Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.