In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place

God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us

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

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

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.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.