When we parted, on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, I leaned over to give her a kiss on the cheek. ‘If you do find paradise, ’ she said, turning to leave, ‘send me a grape.

The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.

To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope.

Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.

...avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.

Progress has not brought about universal happiness...

To love one’s self, this is the greatest challenge we are all called to face.

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

Scrolls: write on them what you want to be remembered for.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

I love doing impersonations of people.

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

Overall, vampires are a much more refined people; vampinese are much more barbarian and monstrous.

The trouble with plastic surgery is that after 10 years, gravity wins out and you have to have another one in a year or so.

One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.