The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.

Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

In the beginning said a Persian poet - Allah took a rose a lily a dove a serpent a little honey a Dead Sea apple and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram - it was a woman.

I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner, " Fang said, joining us.

And the love in their eyes set the world on fire.

She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end.

You don't change the world out of obligation, but you will out of glorious obsession.

Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.

I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.