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

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

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

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

There's so much to be afraid of.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

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