Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

One of the big lies with sin is that we are already waist-deep and might as well just plunge in.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.

There is no debate among any statured scientists of what is happening. The only debate is the rate at which it is happening.

In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.