Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

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.

One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

Dammnnn, " Breccan slowly spoke each letter with a grin on his face that spread from ear to ear. "Impressive flames, guy.

I have spent hours and hours watching elephants, and to come to understand what emotional creatures they are...it's not just a species facing extinction, it's massive individual suffering.

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.

I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

It's weird how me and that insect are miles apart in terms of lifestyle, yet we both like a biscuit.

I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children.

I've never had any intentions of taking a break (from boxing).