We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

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.