Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

Emerson has what I believe is called a selective memory. He can recall minute details of particular excavations but is likely to forget where he left his hat.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much

I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.

I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.

He'd pulled back a little, just with his lower half, and I was afraid the scorch in my cheeks would set fire to the rest of me, because I an idea why. Wow. Oh wow.

When your whole being is attracted to someone else's whole being, then I think that is someone you were meant to be connected with at some point.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.

If you saw me every day, you would actually think I am wearing the exact same gray suit.