Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is.

Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand.

The desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Think good, speak good, and be good.

Good cheese needs good companions.

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?