Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.