We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself and a crank as one who having determined what the law is insists on laying it down to others.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

Where your fear is, there is your task.

Love everything around you as if everything is yours.

Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention.

I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music we become inexplicably troubled.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

I was a typical kid. I dug holes in the yard, threw rocks, had plum battles with the neighbours and used trash can lids as shields. I was always outside getting dirty.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?

You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It's by taking chances that you'll learn how to be brave.