There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.

Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.

If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?