Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.

I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.

There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.