My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.

I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.

In relationships, the cheater is unable to trust anyone, including the cheated.

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.

Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk