I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.

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.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the green ridges from the skyline, and some of the beauty and spirit that are still available to any resident of the valley who has a moment and the wit to lift up his eyes unto the hills.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.