“When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.”
June 08, 2009, 3:50pm
when others were asleep, I found these words and put them together by their appetites and respect for each other. In stillness, they jostled. They traded meanings while pretending to have only one.”
January 17, 2009, 10:34am
that you’ll never be someone who is going to organize the world and transform it in a logical way; you’re never going to think in any kind of politically logical way, and you’re never going to really have any power.”
January 16, 2009, 9:33am
Open note to trash collectors in Michigan:
I inadvertenly threw out a stack of playscripts this past week. Please contact me if your union would like to stage a production of any of them.
January 08, 2009, 8:51am
I would not have been a poet
except that I have been in love
alive in this mortal world,
or an essayist except that I
have been bewildered and afraid,
or a storyteller had I not heard
stories passing to me through the air,
or a writer at all except
I have been wakeful at night
and words have come to me
out of their deep caves
needing to be remembered.
— from VII by Wendell Berry
January 07, 2009, 12:01pm
