“To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.”

“The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I write, the more I feel the force of the other urge, which collaborates with and completes the first one: the desire to know the Other from within him. To feel what it means to be another person. To be able to touch, if only for a moment, the blaze that burns within another human being.”

“But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.”

“I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject.”

“No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may haveThat is part of one's self”

“Family. If one member wasn't being a pain in the ass, another one would be guaranteed to fill the slot”