Pain too much to handle also comes with exquisite beauty, as common as dirt, as unexpected as grace.

There was healing in the tyranny, and tyranny in the healing.

In this waiting, there is witness.

The line between the living and the dead may not be much of a line at all, but the terrain is not for the weak of heart.

Honoring a life is honoring the wide open space of wilderness and unknowing where the sacred dwells.

Resurrection does not come without crucifixion, and you cannot celebrate Easter without living Good Friday.

Are we meant to be pilgrims of the depths?

What is known might sometimes sustain us, but what is unknown will save us.

Grief would weave itself among the threads of love and life and hope, and I was starting to believe that what came of it all would still one day be beautiful.

Tracks were adumbrations of the energy of life all about us, the recent history book of wilderness.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.

A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think.

Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

A vampire may play with his food, but he never sets it free.

Sometimes, it's all about the casting.

The good news is your surgery was a success and now you look like a movie star! The bad news is that movie star is Drew Carey!

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.