I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on the rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what else is there? What else do we need?

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.