Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

The only impossible task is the one which we fear to begin.

Without basic human values guiding us, we become morally bankrupt. Without love as our purpose, we become empty. Without understanding of both of these, we become lost.

What an excellent great soul you are?

I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

Doing the voice for something [cartoon] requires an enormous amount of energy and you really have to use your whole body. It's cool.

Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt. "You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth.

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?

Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.