It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.

Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!