“Don’t listen to yourself. Listen to the advice you give others.”

“What would your good do if evil didn’t exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?”

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”

“There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.”

“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”

“[…] now that we’re in a climate emergency, the closer we can get to zero births, the better. I do admire women who decide to not have children for the environment. I think it’s touching and noble and generous. It’s also incredibly sensible. People don’t talk enough about how tiring, boring, enraging, time-consuming, expensive and thankless parenthood is. Why must we keep pretending it’s a joy? Sure, there are delightful elements: children are endearing and fascinating, and if you have some, you get to play with toys again and read children’s books and remember your childhood. But illness, worry, conflict, overcrowding, the relentless cooking, the driving, the loss of privacy, the repression of your own sexuality, the education dilemmas, the lack of employment prospects, and all the wretched insanity of adolescence – these are big deterrents.

“I’m with you. No matter what else you have in your head I’m with you and I love you.”

“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed, chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests.”

“Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.”

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”