A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.

Men and women aren't too dissimilar.

I met a travler from an ancient land.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

He ran a gas station down in St. Louis. No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.