The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

New gods arise when they are needed.

What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?

The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary.

The greatest enemy to the movement of Jesus Christ is Christianity.

Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.

Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

I'm proud to be alive during a time where we have the opportunity to responsibly bring cannabis to the public.

What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.

The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.

Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.