“‎I wish Barry Lopez would write novels.from "Conversations with Jim Harrison”

“Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.”

“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.”

“Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.”

“Everyday I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.”

“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North”

“I seek the substantial in life.”