There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain, ' Knight said.

Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...

The only book Knight didn't steal was the one he most often saw. 'I had no need for a Bible, ' he said.

I'm not used to seeing people's faces. There's too much information there. Aren't you aware of it? Too much, too fast.

I read. That's my form of travel.

He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him.

Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.

That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.

Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude "that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that "no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

The heart apparently doesn’t stop that easily.

Encouraging words are hands that pool others from the despair of life.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.

More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.

R&b, poetry, I'd like to do everything. But I'm an entertainer and entertaining is not just music. I can do comedy; I'm one of those guys, I can stand up there with a mic. I'm not gonna freeze.

People gonna talk whether you doing bad or good.