A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...

In extraordinary times, the ordinary takes on a glow and wonder all of its own

I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.

...it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly.

You can live an ordinary or extraordinary life. You get to choose.

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible