Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

All human existence is a trick of light.

There are no amateurs in the world of children.

In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.

What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened or it was the first thing they did, transcendingly, the thing that made them higher, made them modern, the gaze that demonstrates we are lonely in our souls?

The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.