I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

We can't escape the need to loveNorCan we resist the longing to be loved

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.

Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.

Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

Tribeca has always celebrated the most exciting new forms of storytelling, from video games to virtual reality.

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just dont understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.