I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

Go on the roller coaster they tell me. It’ll be fun they tell me. -Max Montgomery

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

The key with blogging is to lay it all out there because sooner or later people are going to know what you know, so might as well be the first one to share the information and get credit for it.

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.