You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.