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

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.

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

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.

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

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.

He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating the law of gravity.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

To fear what you do not understand is to mistake ignorance for safety.

And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.