Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.

Live what you love.

We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.

No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.

I don't think I have the stamina anymore and I certainly don't have the health.

You keep distracting me,” I tell her. “All I’m doing is sitting here talking to you!” “Exactly,” I say, and I smile at her.j

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.

What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.

All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.