“We try and map boundaries, and to string fence - we try to set up a border between life and death, between… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“..everyone has to do one really bad thing in life to call their life a life.” — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“There's an enormous difference between being a story writer and being a regular person. As a person, it's your duty to stay… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“There is romantic nonsense these days about the beauty of death, about the terrible end becoming the lovely beginning, and I think… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“Slater used to be a poet, he's nothing now, and he sort of looks on Robby and me with awe because we… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“I'm surprised when I walk right into yet another abandoned hunters' camp. Tattered plastic sheeting still hangs askew here and there. Blackened aerosol cans… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction. — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I imagine I can feel the earth pause in its rotation, can feel it pause and look at us as if wondering, Just… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning,… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“We try and map boundaries, and to string fence - we try to set up a border between life and death, between man and… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“You can't manufacture love: you can't build it back up, like a fire. You start out with a certain amount, and then you hope… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
The seams, the laminae between the various worlds the past present and future as well as the living and the nonliving may not be… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
