One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.

We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.

Are you living just a little and calling that life?

We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.

Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.