Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.