As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.