I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates.

One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.

The universe stood still and the universe continued on its path, travelling through endless time.

The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.

She is a water bug on the surface of life.

With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live.

The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain.

The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.

We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.

If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved.