I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.

That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.