There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything.

There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

The madness of spring is so enticing. I love it when things are opening up and emerging from the ground. I also love the middle of summer when fruit is bursting forth, but I even love the garden in the winter when everything is resting.

Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.