No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

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.

Self-denial is the first quality of love

Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.

The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

Beauty is a mute deception.