The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

you look at me and cryeverything hurtsi hold you and whisperbut everything can heal

Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam.

Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to.

As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.

I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

Ive just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can.

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

I like pain. I like when it lingers. It reminds a person of what they've lived through.