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

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

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

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.