Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

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

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

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

The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.