Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.