Knut Hamsun

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.