From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

One must work with time and not against it.

Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.

We read books to find out who we are.

Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.