Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.

I did however used to think, you know, in the woods walking, and as a kid playing in the woods, that there was a kind of immanence there — that woods, and places of that order, had a sense, a kind of presence, that you could feel; that there was something peculiarly, physically present, a feeling of place almost conscious ... like God. It evoked that.

Hopefully, I write what I don't know.

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

Form is never more than an extension of content.