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

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

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?

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

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.