Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times)

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.