Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.