There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.