Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.

Books fall open, you fall in.

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

There are men too gentle to live among wolves.

Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.

The challenge of ultrarunning is 90 percent mental, and the other 10 percent is all in our heads

Every ounce of information we can extract from a killer about his mind and methods gives us more ammunition to track the next one.

I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing.

I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

I want to save my soul, that timid wind.

The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.

If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.