Quotes by : Michael Perry

Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard.p 44

Mom is a compulsive reader. She reads for pleasure, she reads to edify herself, but more often than not,....

Over the years, I have developed a visceral reaction to families and victims expressing surprise at tragedy.....

The tough times start," he said, "the day the last casserole dish is returned.

I stand beside Tom's barn and ponder the benign heedlessness of the people in the speeding cars, and....

But the sky...cumulonimbus clouds are stacked and banked to the stratosphere, and the lowering sun has....

It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.....

We talk about how he and Leanne are doing knowing full well there is no sufficient answer.p 294

[Fire] is lightfooted and shamanic, dancing between the visible and invisible, undoing matter one collapsed....