Paul Fleischman

You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith,…

— Paul Fleischman

“It was a figure of a whale, with a white triangle that was supposed to be its spray. The spray moved up…

— Paul Fleischman

“the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.”

— Paul Fleischman

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

— Paul Fleischman

“Why do I need TV when I have forty-eight apartment windows to watch across the vacant lot, and a sliver of Lake…

— Paul Fleischman

“You can't see Canada across Lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith,…

— Paul Fleischman

That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments…

— Paul Fleischman

“Isn't that the essence of literature?...Our ability to identify with characters, no matter that they're separated from us by thousands of miles…

— Paul Fleischman

“When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take…

— Paul Fleischman

“The sidewalk was completely empty. It was Sunday, early April. An icy wind teetered trash cans and turned my cheeks to marble.…

— Paul Fleischman

Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is…

— Paul Fleischman

The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have…

— Paul Fleischman

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or…

— Paul Fleischman

Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.

— Paul Fleischman

“The word "paradise" came out of my mouth, without thinking.”

— Paul Fleischman

A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.…

— Paul Fleischman

“But determination can make the miraculous possible.”

— Paul Fleischman

Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.

— Paul Fleischman