“Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.”

“Binoculars, and a hawk-like vigilance, reduce the disadvantage of myopic human vision.”

“No pain, no death, is more terrible to a wild creature than its fear of man.”

“Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.”

“There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.”

“We liked each other so much we skipped marriage, and went straight to the divorce.”

“I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that chord of eternal mournfulness. Is it deliberately sad? Are the horns saying, Be careful, stay away from this train or it will run you over and then people will grieve, and their grief will be as the inconsolable wail of this horn through the night? The out-of-tuneness of the triad is part of its beauty.”