We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
Wallace StegnerAmerican individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
Wallace StegnerEvery time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.
Wallace Stegner