I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

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)

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the price was plenty reasonable, she had an extra room of tile ordered for installation. When the bill arrived, it was staggering. She and her husband began a fight that continued all through the construction job. They ended up divorced, but not until she had broken every window.

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

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.