The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.

The Buddhist concept is that it takes 48 days to get near this state [of death]. So it's a slow process, moving into, not a permanent death, but the world of the dead.

The worse the author, the more he is known.

If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.

I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.

Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.