Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.

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.

What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.

Magic isn't done

I’m not 'aw shucks'. Because I'm gnarly.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

Some things are sent to test us. Clearly you must be good at problem solving if you are being set tough exams.

I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it.

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing.

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.