Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

The way of sin is physical death of soul.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.

Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.

This bank-note world.

In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained.

Can you imagine in 1968 some band being like, "Vietnam is the place to be!"

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

You came form different starts and you'll come to different ends.

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.