The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what….

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can..

This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it..

Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back..

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture..

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere..

Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predicta….

Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown.

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood..

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage..

The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best..

Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter hustles….

Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps me to remember that people are not….

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest….

What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, b….

The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Somet….

I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit..

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against eac….

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me..

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all..

What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?.