Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the sta….

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception..

I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell..

If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most ….

Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person..

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself..

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is..

It's always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see..

French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essent….