In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

To think is not always to see.

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.