I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

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.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.