Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.

I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.

When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman

Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.

I have to tell you, our infrastructure, folks, is a mess. America is like a third-world country.

If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.

I tried being anorexic for four hours and then i was like, i need some bagels.

When you bring the light into your dark house, that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders

I've been very fortunate and I am grateful.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.