Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!

It is the garden of peace you seek, but it is not a tangible place that exists in the world — it is within. Go there, within.

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.

The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal, which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully.

I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.

It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

I don't think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.

Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody's against me all the time. It was something of a revelation.