If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s….

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that ….

I prefer to remain anomalous..

The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't….

I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience..

Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It….

We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as it produces, and….

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as ….

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes..

Downstream is always someone else's up..

It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refus….

Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea..

In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thin….

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward..

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life..

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger..

Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things that ate and drank su….

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing..

There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came hom….

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence..