More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Words have a life; without response they die.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

Time is the skin of existence.

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.

God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.

Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.

Seventh Generation’s work with Carol Sanford made me a better values-based leader.

I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.