At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

We live in a society where those that do the greatest damage to humanity and nature reap the greatest financial rewards.

Failure for one is a source of creativity, build on it and a different story will puzzle itself.

We ought to seek daily grace. The sacred-spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.

Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun.

The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.

But then we so rarely understand the value of what we possess until it's gone.

A lot of these "reality shows" do a lot of producing scenes and producing things and drama and all that but we did the deal contingent that we wouldn't do that.

Pilates is an awesome cross-training exercise for any sport because it focuses on functional movement.

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.