The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

Human was the music, natural was the static.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or ministers or sociologists. A writer's job, is to, by way of fiction, somehow describe the way we live. And to me, this seems an important task, very worth doing, and I think also, to the reading public, it seems, even though they might not articulate it, it seems to them something worth doing also.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.