A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Words have a life; without response they die.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

When we all become more compassionate, there will probably be less suffering in the world.

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

My whole life, I've been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it's an amazing thing.

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

I've learned when you drink Absolut straight, it burns enough to give my chest hairs a perm.