In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.

The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

How much of what is there do you allow yourself to see?

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise it can be experienced - it can not be told.

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

I know who likes football likes me

Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.

I've never been fired in my life.

Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.

Remember, it's Ok to get what you want from life.