One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal's gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.

What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity.