I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

I just want to read and ignore all my adult problems.

Peace is bald eagle Flying and flying over the treesIn search for a spotUnder the blue sky To build her nest to care.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.

People judge too much by results. I'm just the opposite. I care about more than results. I'd rather make a good pitch and give up a bloop single than make a bad pitch and get an out.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

True repentance does not permit repetition.

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.