I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory

So before I start work on a book, I'm like a pregnant mole - I obsessively tidy and order my closets and everything in my study. Because there's such a cascade of images and ideas that I'm grapping with mentally, I couldn't also be in a chaotic setting.

Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.

The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I would say, "I have a secret to tell you." And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly, you would answer: "Whisper it into my mouth.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.