Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.

Love should feel like a hand sewn quilt made by grandma, wrapping you up on a cold winter morning.

I never can love you deep enough or long enough to satisfy me.

Love is the greatest personal force.

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...

I take pride in the fact that you are able to make some good contributions to the sport at certain times.

Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.

Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is that what I want?

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.