Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.