Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time
Tracy KidderMany people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.
Tracy KidderI tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.
Tracy KidderCuring yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.
Tracy Kidder