You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.

What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.