Never confuse Motion with Action.

The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings.

It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

At any rate you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.

Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the permutations and possibilities of as it will, be it horror or ecstasy or boredom?

Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

I started having a lot of problems with my voice in my mid-30s.

After they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land; this attempt is our chance to incur losses on them