If you can pick up a ground ball you'll play for any team you want.

We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds.

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

I THINK the moments we are nearest to heaven are those we spend at the Lord’s table.

The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.

I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

With more people, there are more voices to tune out.

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.