Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

Beauty is achieved through perfection of body and mind.

Studding the indigo sky were thousands and thousands of stars. On nights like this, you could almost feel the planet moving on its axis.

...Nope!...Gues again, you haven't understood me right!

Commitment is a promise to a cause. Being non-committal is a promise to catastrophe.

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.