Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death.

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays about growing up as her child, but I never could finish any of them. I think I was too close to that loss, and too eager to try and resolve things, to make her death make sense.

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.