I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

There is a time in science when it's too early to attack a problem. The stuff has to bubble a bit more and you have to be able to have the foundation on which to stand.

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.

Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.

When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team.