There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.