Smitt walked up next to James and watched the planet slowly grow larger. "They say the water used to be so blue you could see it from space.

I close my eyes and I can see a better day. I close my eyes and pray

Sooner or later we're all gone, so no one bothers getting attached.

And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world.

Never let something important become urgent

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

The wind is blowing. Adore the wind.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.