All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.

He hadn’t saved her. He hadn’t even bothered trying.

Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.

To be in Brazil and see the work of Os Gêmeos or to be in England and see what Banksy is doing is pretty fascinating to me.

We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow

I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.