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

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

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.

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)

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

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

Success and money can really be quite blinding.