Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience.

The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.

That very breath wherewith they utter their complaints is a blessing and a fundamental one too for if God would withdraw that they were incapable of whatsoever else either have or desire.

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

Guilt ripped into her like a rusty, serrated knife. It took up residence in her soul, settling in and getting comfortable so it could saw away ragged pieces of flesh and leave her to bleed.

There is no such complicated situation which people could not make more complicated.

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.

Flying or falling, it's up to us.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

I think the fact that we have been focussing on politics quite a lot and the tumult of politics rather than what we should be doing in terms of policy has made, I think, voters quite grumpy.