“Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn’t struck you.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“After all, what are any of us after but the conviction of belonging?”
― On Teaching and Writing Fiction
― On Teaching and Writing Fiction
“He’s just a boy, pretending to be a wolf, pretending to be king”
― Where the Wild Things Are
― Where the Wild Things Are
“National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.”
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“If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making, to be buried and eventually exposed again for the puzzlement of creatures of later eras.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
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