The rare moment I don’t believe in myself enough.

I try too hard not to get things wrong.

If I had a trait that I truly deplored, I would work to erase or modify it…Probably, a lack of discipline. (Though people think that I write quickly, & don’t revise, quite the reverse is true.) To myself, I work very slowly & painstakingly, & am often frustrated by accomplishing so little. My friend Margaret Atwood has said that in the late afternoon she is likely to be overcome by a feeling of desperation that she has accomplished so little that day, & this is a feeling I share, often. It seems that I waste most of my time gazing out the window here at my (overgrown) garden; & when I am in Berkeley, where I spend about one-third of the year, I am forever gazing out the window toward the San Francisco Bay & a continually changing, always-beautiful sky.

Having no patience.

I just encourage everybody who is going to vote to take the climate or the environment into account when they vote.

I just encourage everybody who is going to vote to take the climate or the environment into account when they vote.

We just can't keep putting all this CO2 into the atmosphere, and we're so dependent on fossil fuels. We have five times more renewable energy in wind in North Dakota than we use in the United States. North Dakota could be the Saudi Arabia of wind!

I just encourage everybody who is going to vote to take the climate or the environment into account when they vote.

I just encourage everybody who is going to vote to take the climate or the environment into account when they vote.

I just encourage everybody who is going to vote to take the climate or the environment into account when they vote.