She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

Death steals everything except our stories.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters--I'm alive again.

No demigod can heal your heart."Aphrodite to Reyna, at Charleston

I had nothing to offer anybody except for my own confusion

Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism

If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted' brain-cycles.

The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.

Id rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC