“Meeting a dragon is like falling in love. Even though you have never experienced it before, you will know when it has happened.”

“Meeting a dragon is like falling in love. Even though you have never experienced it before, you will know when it has happened.”

“Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.”

“Meeting a dragon is like falling in love. Even though you have never experienced it before, you will know when it has happened.”

“The heart, I think, which is the home of all things rhythmic, is where learned poems go to live.”

“Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.”

“The conversation progressed, bumper-car style, to a very heated discussion about death and the survival of the soul. It amazes me that we, as a species, can argue so fervently over something that is, when all is said and done, unknowable and unprovable. Nonetheless, we all arrive at conclusions and cleave to our certainties: that there is nothing but the Void; or that we will find ourselves writing an admissions exam at the Pearly Gates.”