You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.