You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.
To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.