A pier is a disappointed bridge

As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.

My joy was ghostly, like something not quite realized.

Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often don’t know who you are, which is why they kill you.

Sometimes pain is God’s megaphone, his only way to get our attention.

The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.

The mind has powers that allow us to go beyond our normal or habitual way of being, and beyond what we think is possible.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

So the big, bad, and able-to-mind-control angel thinks you’re his. As in ‘I don’t share my woman.