I seek the substantial in life.

No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.

I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.