Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.

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.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Stand up for what's right for you when the time's right. Wake up to grab it as soon as possible. Shake up when you wake up

I never got int the library thing. I always liked that I could put my hand on a book when I wanted it. And to know I owned them

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me Admittedly I probably did it subliminally for you

Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. unmeasured by the flight of years; and all that life is love.