To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

Nixon’s offences had been so long in the past, so much part of a different era that he now seemed like some lovable but bigoted uncle you tolerated at Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Christina Aguilera finally announced her pregnancy. Thanks for waiting until your third trimester to get the word out—why not just wait until you’re crowning?

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.

Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

I've learned to question success a lot more than failure.

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

I need a release from whatever I'm writing.

On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.