The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.

Only a woman can make you feel wrong for doing something right.

Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.

The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

Proclaiming the gospel is not an activity in which we periodically and temporarily engage.

No scheme pays as well as legitimate business.

They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?

Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.