She smelled like a mountain valley in springtime and made him dream of the future in a way he hadn’t considered possible.

He liked the way her smile infected him and infused a bit of heat into his cold bones—a warmth missing until he'd opened the door to her flower shop.

It is true that nobody is above the law, but power can make somebody invisible.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

Reading is at the beginning of the social contract.

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

It's not our church; it's God's - it's not our responsibility to run it!

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Life is not for the faint of heart.