Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Words have a life; without response they die.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.

Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

I don't need much coaxing.

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

Hillary Clinton's plan is going to raise taxes and even double your taxes. Her tax plan is a disaster.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.

Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.