One thing that has gone wrong in America is the general acceptance of bad ham.
Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself, as if she let go, great pieces of her life would shatter and fall off in mockery of the apocalypse.
The head’s a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don’t travel at all.
The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth.
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.
Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
Barring love I’ll take my life in large doses alone – rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
Death steals everything except our stories.
I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.
Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
I’m hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don’t know what.
Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That’s the main content. The biggest thing in people’s lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.
Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don’t do it unless you’re willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. – True North.
Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn’t comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.