It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

- John Burnham Schwartz

Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.

- John Burnham Schwartz

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

- John Burnham Schwartz

Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.

- John Burnham Schwartz

Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone…

- John Burnham Schwartz

A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath.

- John Burnham Schwartz

The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.

- John Burnham Schwartz

I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent r…

- John Burnham Schwartz

Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: …

- John Burnham Schwartz