I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.
I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.
Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?
Fiction writing feels more honest to me.
Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the world just as it is, troubled though it be. . . The writing is honest, intensely lived, and overflowing with heart: broken, mended, and whole.
To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.
The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.
Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
This nation was established by the God of heaven as a citadel of liberty. A Constitution guaranteeing those liberties was designed under the superintending influence of heaven.
What are men? Children who doubt.
I never get tired of running. The ball ain't that heavy.