I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

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

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)

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

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.

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

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.