Robert Hass

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

The market doesn't make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there's more than enough to go around.

All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.