Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.
For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters. An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.
Riding turns 'I wish into 'I can'.
In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.
Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.
Horses lend us the wings we lack.
While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.
If you're really tired, I could put you to sleep," he said. "Tell you a bedtime story. " She looked at him. "Are you serious?" "I'm always serious
My agent says, "You have an audition for the next Dustin Hoffman movie, playing a pioneer woman. " And I go, "All right!" I passed Barry Levinson in the hall on the way into my audition, and I saw him do a double-take. I think I looked so determined that I got the job right then.
I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.