“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.”

“First smile!! An unseasonal little shower of rain fell here, and a lot of butterflies drowned, so we put them in the sun and they came back to life, and flew up and then Agaat SMILED!”

“Marriage is holy and it's private.”

“...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.”

“Nature is subtle and complex.”

“..we all have to do things in this life that we don't like..”

“It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”

“The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Re...”

“But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.”

“Everything can be restored. If one won't believe that, how does one endure all this?”

“Let us restore trust back to our society”

“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to ...”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“Silence is a powerful tool.”