You grow. You are large. You are a 19th century poem.All of America is inside you, a catalogue of lives and landand burrowing things.-From "Catalogue

You bear a sword and shield, remind meof her labor, her stoning gaze. What beastwill your blade free next? What call will you loosefrom another woman's throat?

Refuse the old means of measurement.Rely instead on the thrumming wilderness of self. Listen.-From "Out West

I've often had to stand on the firm ground of my convictions when others thought I ought to be doing differently.

Like the hub of a wheel, the church’s corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them.

But never forget: When everything feels like it's falling to pieces, the pieces might actually just be falling into place.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.

The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.

If a claim is worth making, make it in the most impressive way.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

Fundraisers treat men completely differently than women. As a matter of fact, many of them have the default on their direct mail set up to read "Mister," and it really rankles a lot of women.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.