There's so much to be afraid of.

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

To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

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.

There's so much to be afraid of.

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