Being a writer requires an intoxication with language. - Jim Harrison

I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.

Animals spend a lot of time being still so when we do they lose their logical mistrust of us.

Shakespeare and a very few others qualified but thousands and thousands of others dropped into the void without a sound.