This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

Death by starvation is slow.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me .... / Beautifully .. on every side .... / As I walk .. I walk with beauty.

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

How terrible, " said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you."

You can be afraid to voice your opinions but you just fight through it. It's like NIKE okay you just do it.

I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

New York will be my home for the rest of my life as far as I'm concerned.

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

We all want to be renewed, don't we?

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.