Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Sameron adion asoI shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

So much time spent believingwe had ghosts in our machines has accustomed us to hauntingourselves.

With limited money you can survive, with more money you can live.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Zoe's mom liked to send silly postcards that made her laugh, but they usually dwindled as the summer wore on.

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

I love Tokio Hotel and their music, their makeup, their hairstyles and their subtlety.

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!