Take me someplace where we can be silent together.

It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.