It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.

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

I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

We are all naturally xenophobic.