“We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.”

“If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the g...”

“Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.”