Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.

Every 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.

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.