I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human...I told Mom my own theory of why we like birds - of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.