The market doesn't make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there's more than enough to go around.

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.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

Leesha knew from experience that when parents don't parent, kids grow up fast.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

War is the national industry of Prussia.

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists.

I like dogs. Dogs don't judge people.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.