He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too - that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

They’d scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms—not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.

There are some who said I should have fought harder or longer than I did for my marriage, but in the end fighting for love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

They love me like a pack of wolves.Ernest

I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.

Take a break to listen to the song of the wind, talk to the whispering trees, feel the love of flowers, dance with the dancing leaves, and enjoy the tranquility and serenity of nature.

Touch your enemies’ heart with love. It will bloom flowers of gratitude and joy.

Sacredness is spirituality.

Death is the principal limitator of opportunities, progress & life.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

When I tried to grasp at either what I love or what I hate, I destroyed the very ability of being able to really penetrate the essence of either. By trying to understand it, I would just crush it.

Atheism has no room for human rights.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.