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

I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.