Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

We can't fix, only support each other to process, manage, transform, make life-journeys in own way.

It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.

A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.

Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk

Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.

I like being misunderstood.

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.

Every single house has had death visit.