“I like to read becauseit kills me.”

“If there is any irreverence in my own work, I hope it is the irreverence I bear in mistrusting my own sincere self, which then sincerely mistrusts the irreverent me. If there is a bottom to this, I think it is a life’s work.”

“I study nature so as not to do foolish things.”

“Something unpronounceablefollowed by a long silencepoints out my lifeis becoming a landscape.”

“For years the tears fellwithout touching the ground.On this night they hit the floor.”

“The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.”

“After hearts shot through with arrows, we have bunnies followed by a warlike fire in the sky, then ghosts, turkeys to honor more ghosts, and a baby born in a barn who is not yet a ghost but also a ghost, for whom we drag trees inside where they do not belong.”