It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.

Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.

It's very hard to track down what's real and what's not real. We haven't absorbed what climate change is doing. Because whether people associate it or not, fear of immigration is completely related to climate change, because the mass migrations that are happening, the war in Syria, all of these structural human migrations are related to climate change.

If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.