real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

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.

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.