We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

You are a foreigner in an actual world, a human co-worker, a truth, a divine word, and a perfect mistake.

Liberal - a power worshipper without power.

Success is the best builder of character.

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.

It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

I like serving America.

I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.

Jesus spoke in such a way that the people loved the things of God. That’s why they followed him.