I look down the farthest side of the mountain, fulfilled and understanding all, and truly content that I lived a full life and one that was my own choice
The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.
I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.
Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.
Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.
every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?