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" In December 2011, a wild gray wolf set foot in California, the first sighting in almost a century. He'd wandered in from Oregon, looking for a mate. "

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" Most climate debates have focused on cutting the use of fossil fuels. But besides a few high-profile scuffles over fuel extraction in vulnerable wild places like the offshore Arctic, political leaders have ignored fossil fuel production as a necessary piece of climate strategy. "

" Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing. "

" Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein. "

" At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now. "

" Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that. "

" I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan. "

" The Safari Club International has worked the legal system hard to try to keep polar bears - threatened primarily by climate change, but also by hunting - on the list of creatures people can import as trophies after shooting. "

" I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House? "

" Economic and health statistics, as well as police-violence statistics, shed light on the pressures on American Indian communities and individuals: Indian youths have the highest suicide rate of any United States ethnic group. "

" I have a king bed, one of those memory-foam mattresses that doesn't jiggle as you get in or out. Even if you cleaved it down the middle with a pickax, the thing wouldn't tremble. It's practically earthquake-proof. "

" L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally. "

" I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It's enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil. "

" When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness. "

" I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts. "

" Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature? "

" More than two million years ago, mammoths and Asian elephants took different evolutionary paths - and around the same time, according to DNA research, so did their lumbering relatives in Africa. "

" Trophy hunters are not Everyman. These world-traveling endangered-species shooters are a far cry from the hunters who spend weekends in the American outback near their suburban or rural homes. "

" I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding. "

" You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel. "

" If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily. "

" If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for. "

" I don't write the same book twice. "

" I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in. "

" There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I'm always interested in contradictions. "

" I'm for any woman who loves sloths. "

" I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people. "

" At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time. "

" There has to be space for play in literature. We all need some breathing room. "

" People from the rest of the state tend to hate Phoenix, with that typical resentment of the boroughs and the towns for the big city. "

" We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.' "