The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not interested-it's not where I live. I live inside the story.

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not interested-it's not where I live. I live inside the story.

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.