The highest value in life is found in the stewardship of time.

The greatest journey of discovery that the human can take is not through the universe or to the remotest location on earth, it is the voyage through the human mind.

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

"The Dream of a Common Language" by Adrienne Rich. I carried it the entire hike. On my first night, when I felt like I was in too deep, I read the first poem out loud to myself over and over.

We will kill in ourselves a world in order to build another, a higher one reaching to the heavens.

I'm sorry, I don't speak English.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

A living doll, everywhere you look. It can sew, it can cook, It can talk, talk, talk. . . . My boy, it's your last resort. Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.