We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.

I study nature so as not to do foolish things.

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

Now I will give you a piece of advice. I will tell you something that I absolutely believe you should do, and if you do not do it you will never be a witer. It is a certain truth. When your pencil is dull, sharpen it. And when your pencil is sharp, use it until it is dull again.

There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do.

If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.