I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

To hear, one must be silent.

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.

Owning is owing, having is hoarding.

The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.

They can send death at once, but life is slower.

Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.