Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

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

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.