Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.