For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.

The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.

It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.

And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.

I suppose therefore God is the connoisseur of filthied hearts and souls, and can see the old, the first pattern in them, and cherish them for that.

It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can.

Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me?

A child is never the author of his own history.

The trust of those in dark need is forgiving work.

With Eyes Like Charles Manson, a life similar to H.P Lovecraft, and lyrics like Edgar Allan Poe, Kurt Cobain was the master of horror in music.

I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will.

Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

For Wayfarers still journeying, for Wanderers at rest.

As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.

Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

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