“I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.”

“There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.”

“If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.”

“Around them, sky and air wove the ancient song of the meeting place of earth and seawave-rush on the shore, gulls mewing and sobbing. No more bells, except a last dying peal from Fara.”

“I sit down by the river.Its incessant flow has polished the rocks carried from the top of the mountain. The aqueous caress, that has unrolled for millions of years the liquid ribbon from the summit...”

“Dont forget that the land is always out there, making its way, doing everything it can so you can breathe fresh air; so you can eat fresh food; so you can move and see and feel and think, and its o...”