For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.

Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.

Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.

You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea.