Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

Think about all that we've lost that has been said orally because nobody was taking it down. I feel very fortunate to live in a time where we have so many different voices. We have a much richer literature than we've ever had, and we can know America so much better.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.