All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

Our friends have a way of reminding us of how fabulous we are when the rest of the world has forgotten.

Heal the boy and the man will appear.

His blank face communicated an emptiness that could never be filled"- Frank Balenger

I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

When the cat's away, chances are he's been run over.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Swear it on your life. (Zephyra) That I can never do. (Stryker) Why can’t you? (Zephyra) Because you are my life, and I can’t live another day without you. (Stryker)

The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.

I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."