“Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and fin...” — Anthony Doerr Quote

“Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake.”

“I grew up in Cleveland, so my heart got attached at a young age to the freight train of sadness that is Cleveland sports.”

“In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool - how it keeps you cool when you're hot, warm when you're cold, dry when you're wet.”

“If there is one good thing I can say about the Republicans, it is that they are generally better than Democrats at putting the interests of their party above the interests of any one of its members.”

“National interest is above anything else. Just because you sit in an air-conditioned room, you can say you shouldn't relate cricket and movies to politics. Ask anyone who has lost a family member to terror attacks, and you will get your answer.”

“These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.”