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

Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.

I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.

Water is the true wealth in a dry land.