1. “Life is a process of one goneness after another.”
2. “If reality had a stage door I’d hang around there to see what comes out after the show.”
3. “Is there an existence that is only mine?.”
4. “Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart.”
5. “There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don’t make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.”
6. “An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible”
7. “I believe that most of us would lie to be thought well of by horses.”
8. “Explorers have to be ready to die lost.”
9. “Language is an archaeological vehicle… the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.”
10. “Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn’t in us. It’s almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren’t.”
11. “A family is everybody all together.”
12. “My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.”
13. “Words have a life; without response they die.”
14. “There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people ho don’t see them anymore.”
15. “The things that matter don’t necessarily make sense.”
