... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.
Many 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.
I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression
among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative