The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes its time, and gets to know everyone personally. —T-SHIRT

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it.

The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

You can communicate by responding with your body or with a hand clap, with a laugh or with a smile, with non-verbal communication.

You never know who's going to kill you until you meet them.

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

Bob [Gordon] died young tragically.

All of the great whales are endangered.