“How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”

“More than anything in this world or the one you just came from," he whispered. "That's how much I love you.”

“From "Wetness and Water"How does a part of the world leave the world?How can wetness leave water?Do not try to put out a fireby throwing on more fire.Do not wash a wound with blood.No matter how fast you run,your shadow more than keeps up.Sometimes it's in front.Only full, overhead sundiminishes your shadow.But that shadow has been serving you.What hurts you blesses you.Darkness is your candle.Your boundaries are your quest.”

“It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.”

“To recognize understand and learn how to protect a new ecosystem requires much more time and attention than it does to exploit and destroy one.”

“And if it be true that it is one of the tokens of the fully developed mind that it does not think specially or separately of sex, how much harder it is to attain that condition now than ever before. ... No age can ever have been as stridently sex-conscious as our own ...”