The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for and admiration of li….

We are stuck with not knowing what our actions will actually lead to..

The important thing for me is that one accepts that one is irretrievably flawed and as you say, takes responsibility for those flaws, rather than hid….

In our male-oriented God phase, it's always about conquering and control of life and death. This power leads to a kind of thinking that is no thinkin….

As beings who cannot know the outcome of any particular action, it is difficult for us to act in a way that will be necessarily beneficial to another….

There's a tangle between weakness and vulnerability..

Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me..