You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.