I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

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.

How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.