I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty.

Can you imagine a scenario, given our present circumstances, in which human life will actually survive and be here in a thousand years?

...returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first left nature.

I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.

It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.

The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world.

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have a pretty good sense of comic thing, so I'd really like to try that.

It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it

If you are a black woman, you get two history months in a row.

I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

Whatever you think rightly concerning will go well. Whatever you think wrongly concerning, will go ill.

A woman always has her revenge ready.

I think religion is best when it's reduced to a one hour television program.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.