...with white dawns and glaring moons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

The way I see it," Miles went on, "it's no good hiding yourself away, like Pa and lots of other people. And it's no good just thinking of your own pleasure, either. People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.