Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

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.

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

A communication highway without content is inconceivable.

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

I don't have any big secret about putting. Just hit at it. It's either going to miss or go in.

Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.

Justice seldom happens by accident.