Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.

He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.

As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.

Long days and pleasant nights