When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

The days are stacked against what we think we are.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

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)

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.