Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

This group moves at warp speed.