Desire I think has less to do with possession than with participation, the will to involve oneself in the body of the world, in the principle of things expressing itself in splendid specificity, a handful of images: a lover’s irreplaceable body, th...
One last mystery: on one of the little ponds, this morning, I saw wind riffling the first of the waterlily leaves. They haven’t all emerged yet, but new circles tattoo the water, here and there, a coppery red. When the wind lifted their edges, each...
Christmas Eve, I give him packages which I open for him, since the bows and paper represent more labor than he could manage: music videos by the Nashville singers he thinks particularly sexy, fleece-lined slippers decorated with images of bacon and e...
Hi, I have just added my new novel, "Incessant Expectations" for your reading enjoyment. It is about commercial salmon fishing on the Oregon coast circa 1976. It is fiction. The industry doesn't exist anymore. A young farmer from the dry country in S...
All I can tell you is that at the end, there's nothing left but love.
Part of me shall dwell in my daughter to call upon in times of need of course.
I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.
If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.
The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.
I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.
Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.
We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.
Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.
The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.
I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.
I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.
Woody: Pull my string! The birthday party's today? Okay everybody, the coast is clear!
Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.
