We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.

You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

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