“Being a novice is safe. When you are learning how to do something, you do not have to worry about whether or not you are good at it. But when you have done something, have learned how to do it, you...”

“On the way home I felt a great and simple sadness. I missed my dad. I missed him very much.”

“Gos was still out there in the forest, the dark forest to which all things lost must go. I'd wanted to slip across the borders of this world into that wood and bring back the hawk White lost. Some ...”

“...that when you wanted to see something very badly,sometimes you had to stay still,stay in the same place, remember how much you wanted to see it,and be patient.If you want to see hawks you have t...”

“The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.”

“When I was an undergraduate we were told that history had ended, and we all believed it. When the Berlin Wall fell, what history was made of was over. No more Cold War. No more wars. And yet here i...”

“Do the right thing every single day and you never have to worry about your job or your pay.”

“From 9-5 you put food on your table. Before 9 and after 5 you make your fortune!!!”

“When doubted, double your efforts”