A writer's work is to witness things.

To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.

There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.