Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

The purpose of our life is to help others through it.

Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous

Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful?

If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us.

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

How could I say that I wished to penetrate the secrets of the mountains in search of something still unknown that, like the yeti, might well be missed for the very fact of searching?

Be light, light, light - full of light!

because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm.

Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun.

Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?

The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.