When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.

When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.