Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.

He can't value you more than you value yourself.

Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.

The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Fake it, you will make it. But you have to believe it.

Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.

Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.