Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

New gods arise when they are needed.

What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?

The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

Reflectors need to be placed on trees every 50 feet so people can hike at night with flashlights.

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

All photography is propaganda.

I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain.

What we are speaks so loudly that our children might not hear what we say

Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.

I have done very little in my life except go to school and work for the CIA. Intellectually I think I did everything I could. Emotionally you always think you should have something more.