The only perfect climate is bed.

... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

If I've learned anything this trip, it's that you have to take responsibility for what you don't do, as well as what you do.

Sannyas is not a philosophy

But inside is my Emmy. She remembers all our adventures together. She knows that for a short time, we had it all.

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

The Gods rank work above virtues.

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.

I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner.

The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.