Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don't have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.