We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.