Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

There is always the need to carry on.

There are no other Everglades in the world.

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.

The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.

I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

Don’t just love a person for the image, idea or concept of them, but love them for every fantastically weird and twisted details that makes them up.

Rituals are missing nowadays

You wanna know what a gateway drug is? It opens a gate.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.

I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying.

Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?

Courage! Do not fall back.

If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.