The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheer….

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 ca….

How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and wish the reader well. The writer must tr….

I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write. So hard to finish, so hard to find the exact word to mak….

I don't believe you ever stop loving anyone you ever really loved. You have them there like money in the bank just because you loved them and held th….

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past..

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

The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the money to give you ….

One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they were hated by their mother or fat….

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 fri….

We cannot get from anyone else the things we need to fill the endless terrible need, not to be dissolved, not to sink back into sand, heat, broom, ai….

I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of lif….

A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dance in the fullness of time..

Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as ….