A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain.

Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.

(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere.

Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

I'm not tied to any particular political line.

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?