It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.