All I Know Is A Door Into

Even If The Hopes You Started Out With Are Dashed, Hope Has To Be Maintained.

The Way We Are Living, Timorous Or Bold, Will Have Been Our Life.

No Bit Of The Natural World Is More Valuable Or More Vulnerable Than The Tree Bit. Nothing Is More Like Ourselves, Standing Upright, Caught Between Heaven And Earth, Frail At The Extremities, Yet Strong At The Central Trunk, And Nothing Is Closer To Us At The Beginning And At The End, Providing The Timber Boards That Frame Both The Cradle And The Coffin.

The Appointment [in Harvard] Gave Me Economic Safety, Writerly Support, And Intellectual Self-respectplus Eight Months To Myself Every Year.

God Is A Foreman With Certain Definite Views Who Orders Life In Shifts Of Work And Leisure.