Stephen Crane Quote

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...

Her screams spiraled up into the night air

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of signif...

A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. The...

If you want to feel the sunshine, change position!

Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...