Making friends with other writers you respect is reason enough to go to graduate school. You
Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this because it is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in li...
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music.
It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
Catholicism is an obsessive-compulsive faith.
They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them.
The sleep he went back to was never the one he left.
Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.
Oh, my love,' she said. 'What do the only children do?''We'll never have to know.
I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible.
Was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women...
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. It's a plague. It's like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and someone just keep pulling it and pulling it."STATE OF WONDER
Maybe it’s working because I’m an author, and maybe it’s working because Karen works like life depends on this bookstore, or because we have a particularly brilliant staff, or because Nashville is a c...
There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
The two sisters were connected by neither love nor mutual affinity but by a very small bathroom that could be entered from the bedroom on either side.
So was the movie excruciating to watch because nothing was right, or was it excruciating to watch because, impossibly, some things were? Every
In the future, he will try to say her name enough, but he never can.
I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.