Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

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

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

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