She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

Making up for lost time?" "Yes, " I say. "A lot of things were stolen from my childhood. Lots of important things. And now I have to get them back." "In order to keep on li

Happiness is Grandad saving links to cat videos in a Word document so he can share them when she visits.

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

I get annoyed with rushing. Then I get in a bad mood - I'm so cranky. I hate being late.

Limit your thinking and expectation today to only the things God can do.

Everything I read about me is what I say. The way I've come across is exactly who I am. So far, they haven't skewed it to be one way or another too much.

Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.