A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.

Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

In the beginning said a Persian poet - Allah took a rose a lily a dove a serpent a little honey a Dead Sea apple and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram - it was a woman.

If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny)Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters.

Islam has nothing to do with any act of terrorism. We reject every act of extremism and terrorism unconditionally.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment - the sober second thought - of the people.

Starting writing is stressful and scary and hard, but also, it's just like going to the gym. You're just stiff and weird, and you can't do it as well.