I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

A real diamond is never perfect.

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

I’ve been so caught up with mapping out a picture-perfect “forever” that I’m completely neglecting my present, which I have far more control over anyway.

Poetry is a necessity of life.

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms.

How could I expect more from the universe when I didn't appreciate what I already had?

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision.

I think my generation was one of the last to remember the first days of the internet.