I don’t look like who I am.
It’s tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
I prefer to remain anomalous.
Once the rains abated, my father’s garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.
Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.