There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

The tyrant’s formula for every genocide since the beginning of time: differentiate, divide, destroy.

The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

I hope that as my career continues I get to create and work on more LGBT projects and bring LGBT storytelling into more mainstream media!

I have been recognized from Mad Men, and it’s so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.

Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan.

Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.