"Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me."

“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength”

“We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.”

Source : Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.202, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“Florida is kind of notorious. But also because it's a rich place. Phonetically, narratively, historically. I wanted to know Florida better and I could easily find stories. My relationship with Florida is fraught because I didn't want to be living there always, but then after I left I really missed it.”

“I like that New York sensibility where you can be edgy, but still super-glamorous.”

Source : "What Was Leven Rambin Like at 17?". Interview with Ellen Collis, www.seventeen.com. January 9, 2012.

“It is not possible for me to bear alone such labours and the burden of such weighty cares as press on me from hour to hour, without one man at my side to help me. I have not a soul to aid me in all my anxieties and toils.”

Source : "William the Silent". Book by Frederic Harrison, p. 75, 1897.

“Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.”

“I've always been a bit flip.”

“If I like it, I'll buy it; pure impulse shopping.”