The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

New gods arise when they are needed.

What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?

The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.

Hope kept us alive in the midst of the turbulence.

Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve

Leave women to find their sphere.

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

I promise you, I will never enter a bicycle race.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe.

I feel overworked, but when I don't work, I feel weird.

But you can be happy, if you've a mind to!

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.