After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours.

We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.

For I was sure of one thing, it wasn't always the hero who saved the world. It was the person most willing to die first.

Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.

You get there by realizing you are already there.

You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.

Remember, the answers are in the questions.

To know the pain of too much tenderness

I'll have an awesome blossom, EXTRA awesome.

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

It's kind of a shock to your skin, changing climates. It's new water, and new air quality.

I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.