I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.

People ask without wanting to know.

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can't own.