You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?

Happiness earned, not given.

Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.

Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open.

Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

Come hell or water high you'll never see me cry this is our last good bye.

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.