Anyone one loves is a potential enemy.

Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.

happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.

creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit.

Dreams are only the image of outward things shown on an inward mirror. But the mirror is the soul's enclosing darkness.

the siren song/called silence

The Girl does not dream. The Girl has never dreamed.

No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.

If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

I bet you’re not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute?

The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans.

We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.