I’m often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I’m glad I didn’t go, because if I had I wouldn’t have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have...

Back in grade school, my shrinks tried to channel my viciousness into a constructive outlet, so I cut things with scissors. Heavy, cheap fabrics Diane bought by the bolt. I sliced through them with old...

God finds a way to weave even your mistakes into the fabric of a brighter future if you let Him.

On a hanger, no dress is sexy. It’s just fabric on a hanger.

That felt strange. How sharp a rent a handful of moments made in the fabric of a life.

For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits.

The real fabric of the cosmos is nothing.

This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.

I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.

If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu’s words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me...