This is our goal as writers, I think: to help others have this sense of wonder, of seeing things anew, things that catch us off-guard, that break in our small bordered worlds. When this happens everything feels more spacious.

“I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to kno…”

“There is cracks, cracks, in everything, that's how the light gets in.' I had cr…”

“Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems ra…”

“The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and s…”