A named thing is a tamed thing.

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.

Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.

No one should ever be bored. … One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can’t be bored.

I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.

Take something you really don't think about: Plastics in the ocean. I mean plastics in the ocean have an enormous ecological effect.

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

We've created life in our own image.

Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.