When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on fore….

Your life on the Outside reflects your life on the Inside.

We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whethe….

Before we go there and set up greenhouses, dance clubs, and falafel stands, let's make sure that, in some subtle form that could be harmed by the hum….

Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther or nearer in the woods, a….

When we get to the future, I'll decide the future..

Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent..

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming..

A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along the Lake Michigan Beach front, ….

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

I couldn't be more thankful to get my start on a soap opera. It was the hardest job I ever had. Got to practice in front of the camera, like, every d….

It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom o….

Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or….

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout..

One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling….

What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small a….

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men..

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him..

Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important an….

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

No one will ever touch Elvis.