Painting Quote by Peter Heller

“It occurred to me that the death of his grazing land hurt him more, incomparably more than the death of the human race. I…

— Peter Heller

Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away like it's…

— Peter Heller

“We have traveled. Now you will be the path I will walk I will walk Over you.”

— Peter Heller

“Well, I think that’s sort of like Eve biting the apple. You were talking about Genesis. I think it’s like that, the crow is…

— Peter Heller

I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle.

— Peter Heller

“Because that's what it turned into: in front of a fine painting a viewer stopped looking and started watching, watching is more specific, watching…

— Peter Heller

“The pleasure almost split me like a baking stuffed tomato. Like my heart swelled and my skin got thinner and thinner in the heat…

— Peter Heller

Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway.

— Peter Heller

“She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.”

— Peter Heller

All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in the Gulf,…

— Peter Heller

“we can proceed in our lives just as easily from love to love as from loss to loss. A good thing to remember in…

— Peter Heller

“It's early spring, some late or early hour with Orion toppling backward onto the serrated edge of the mountains and not crying out but…

— Peter Heller