Loose lips sink ships.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.