Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?

Your feelings are none of your business.

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque forms and events -- in terms of the import to thought and their impetus to the spirit. In nature I find grace tangled in a rapture with violence; I find an intricate landscape whose forms are fringed in death; I find mystery, newness, and a kind of exuberant, spendthrift energy.