To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

You think everything revolves around Zane Hollander, don't you?""No. But I think your blush does.

It's easier to believe the most outlandish lie that confirms what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it.

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

The environment can actually affect gene expression.

[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.

Motivations are too tangled and complex.