“It became a routine: after feeding the cows and hogs, he’d wrap himself up in scarped and don another sweater and then retreat upstairs with his paints and paper. On the coldest days, he’d come down every half hour or so to let his fingers thaw out. Then he’d go back upstairs to continue this work that no one had asked for, work that he did only because there was a part of him that was tuned to the frequency of beauty rather than of usefulness…”
“Dartmouth College demonstrated gross incompetence with mercury systems when I worked for them.”
“Working at very high altitudes may induce illness and disease into sea level adapted humans.”
“Schooling doesn't assure employment but skill does.”
“Sometimes the loss from taking a wrong action is less than the loss from taking no action.”
“Sometimes a workweek will grind you into sand, pulverize you into particles.”
“If you believe the American work ethic is ‘old school,’ you’d better repeat the class.”