My head bows before the thing you mention.But my heart doesn't speak that lan

Most animals are like people-and like good people

The strangest of our powersIs the courage to liveKnowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more

The beeches deep in snow, I walk the dark woodsIn sorrow, sorrow.Your hand, where is your

I like the sound of rain more than my

Never mind the stillness -the deep sleeps to

I can't promise to becalm, dignified, and indifferent, like a rock by the sea...If my heart's going to break, let it break from anger, grief, or

The cloth cap on my headdoesn't tellwhat's in it.

Haven't you ever thought of livingunconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth, close to pears and the mossy dark, far from human voices and

The worstis when people - knowingly or not -carry prison inside thems

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

If you banish fear nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

I'm not the best of you, but I'm not the worst either.

I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.

I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.

The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible.

Hell is other people at breakfast.

The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.