There's very little solid research on readership, yet people make pronouncements about it all the time.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

To make money buy some good stock hold it until it goes up and then sell it. If it doesn't go up don't buy it.

The strength of the dollar has historically been tied to the strength of the U.S. economy and the faith that investors have in doing business in America.

There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.

He felt married to her, that was all.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.