Donald Hall

On September twentieth every year, I got to choose my menu - meatloaf, corn niblets, and rice were followed by candles on chocolate cake with vanilla icing and a scoop of Brock-Hall ice cream.

Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.