I read. That's my form of travel.

Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...

The only book Knight didn't steal was the one he most often saw. 'I had no need for a Bible, ' he said.

I'm not used to seeing people's faces. There's too much information there. Aren't you aware of it? Too much, too fast.

He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him.

Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.

That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.

There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain, ' Knight said.

Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude "that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that "no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

When my grandchildren ask me what I did in the '42 movement [Quit India Movement] I say - "I waited for it.

There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

It never seizes to amaze me how much I enjoy playing here and how much you fans have meant to me over the years.

Each person has their own brand and style and the way they do things.

Having both a pet and a book...absolute heaven.

We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

If you have a solid friendship before dating, there's this understanding that you can be just youBut you should still have fun hooking up!