Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes..

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying..

Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't b….

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone..

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outw….

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it..

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?.

Love is a powerful painkiller..

A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too..

The best critic needn't be right, just interesting..

It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of ….

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden..

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted..

At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confi….

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. The….

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth..

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them..

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a to….

We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and who we appear ….

You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now..

I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn - small, tasty d….