Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding.
We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us.
It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.
Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness; a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee!
The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.
I smell blood. I'm like a pit bull. Once I taste blood I'm on you. . and I'm about to taste blood.
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.
I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.