While ice is not really alive, it is certainly animate. It exists in an dynamic state of perpetual vibration, flux and movement. Enjoy its existence, and its safe passage in the mountains.

The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

Every pain is repeated in other places and other lives, every joy is repeated in other places and other lives.

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.

When you step out in faith, God's mighty power steps into your life!

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect?

I think having good family and friends really helps to ground you.

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and if there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]