I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be.

What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.