We have the knowledge, resources, and capabilities to make global capitalism work in a more inclusive and socially responsible manner while retaining - indeed enhancing - its economic benefits.

The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.

We're all running away. Some of us just don't get very far.

I'm doing what I like, why wouldn't I be happy? So what if it's not perfect, I don't believe in perfection. Maybe happy's as good as it gets.

There is no better indicators of character than the books you have.

What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.

It’s a truth I love you, It’s a hope you do, And may I live and die with it, Not knowing that you don’t.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

Soul mate love transcends beyond the ethereal plane.

In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

Life can be short and it’s meant to be cherished and treasured—every second, every moment. Now, I’ll love harder. I’ll love fiercer. And I will not be afraid.

It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.

Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.

The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.

I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me.

We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.