"My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good foo..." — Jim Harrison

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.