How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?.

Here’s another change I’ve noticed: The dark is more than the sun dropping off, more than the moon and the stars. It’s what you can’t see that you ho….

We grow too old to lose old friends..

I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way..

Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our….

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living b….

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors..

You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you..

In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it..

Words are the weights which hold our history in place..

Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth..

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other..

Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song..

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you..