“Believe in seeds, earth, and the sea, but in people above all. Love clouds, machines, and books, but people above all. Grievefor the withering branch, the dying star,and the hurt animal, but feel f...”

“Most animals are like people-and like good people”

“The life-loving, smart,good-hearted deaddon't want forty days of mourningor say, "After me the deluge!"Leaving behind some helpful things- a few words, a tree, a smile -each gets up and goesand doe...”

“The strangest of our powersIs the courage to liveKnowing that we will die,Knowing nothing more”

“My head bows before the thing you mention.But my heart doesn't speak that lan”

“The beeches deep in snow,I walk the dark woodsIn sorrow, sorrow.Your hand, where is your”

“The worstis when people - knowingly or not -carry prison inside thems”

“We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.”

“Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion”

“All others are outside myself;I lock my door and bar them outThe turmoil, tedium, gad-about.I lock my door upon myself,And bar them out; but who shall wallSelf from myself, most loathed of all?If I...”