There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

It's what you do that makes your soul.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

With God, a mountain is only a road waiting to happen.

Work for what you want, the pursuit of life.

Social Media isn't about reach as much as it is about "reach out".

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

Goodbye," I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

To love is to lose control.

When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad.