“The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.”

“There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.”

“We have created a world we dont like, dont understand and dont trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.”

“Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. Id be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.”

“Where there is hope there is life.”

“My problem as a writer is thatwhenever I meet someone for the first timeI immediately invent for them a personality and background that are invariably more interesting than the ones they possess. A...”

“There is no Space or TimeOnly intensity, And tame thingsHave no immensity”

“[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.”

“Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?”

“Mountain is mountain.”

“That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the zenith above me and the drop of distance below, I listened to the mountain silence until I could h...”