Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Nothing is more important to me than keeping you safe." - Nathan

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Jesus was a cross-dresser.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

The uniform of Polish Uhlan makes even the youngest, inexperienced boy looks like he's made from steel.

Sadness is an opportunity; a good opportunity to learn the real life!

Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.

What can I hope when all is right?