Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

The humble Cumulus humilis - never hurt a soul.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

My hair takes a while to get right, I use wax to get it to stand up.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.

[I enjoy] working with yeast, tempering chocolate and figuring out why an end product is successful or not.

I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.

Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.