I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.

I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.