No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s own culture but within oneself.

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

It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.

My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.