And I told him that a man's life is always dealing with permanence - that the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as t… - Wendell Berry

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

The world doesn't stop because you are in love or in mourning or in need of time to think. And so when I have thought I was in my story or in charge of it, I really have only been on the edge of it.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what's bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.