Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.