I think on a day-to-day basis, what attracts us in coexisting with another living, evolving thing, is that you have a relationship that's different than with a piece of furniture. We experience the cycle of life through these other beings.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.

The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.