“People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.”

“I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater impulse inside us that compels us to read in search of the common...”

“Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the strangest one I've ever done. I created six large, separate outlines, on...”

“I laid my palm on the second square – the woman in the field and the slaves flying in the air over her head. All that hope in the wind.”

“They say in extreme moments time will slow, returning to its unmoving core, and standing there, it seemed as if everything stopped. Within the stillness, I felt the old, irrepressible ache t...”