Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Amanda Ashley is a master storyteller.

There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen

To be courageous , you have to have an army of people holding you.

Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics.