I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.