We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.