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

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

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.