Quotes from John Jerome

On the solstice: "The tilting of the earth may very well have stopped at the winter solstice, creaking to a halt and starting back the other way, but I was down in the basement at the time, running a power saw, and didn't hear a thing.

Snow falling in the woods when there's no wind is the most peaceful thing I've ever seen.

Joinery, it now occurs to me, must be the foundation of all craft. You put two things together to make something else, to accomplish some purpose; the better they fit, or work together, the greater the pleasure from the making.

Running is the most elemental sport there is. We are genetically programmed to do it.