No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one..

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

Are we going to Portland?" I asked. "Or Multnomah Falls?" He smiled at me. "Go to sleep." I waited three seconds. "Are we there yet?" His smile widen….

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town..

There's something that I can't describe about the city [Portland] that I really love - just physically - how it feels to walk around there, and have ….

I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a….

When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?.

Portland can put the champagne away and get out the bottled water, 'cause that's all they're gonna drink on their way home!.

Portland is where young people go to retire..

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now..