You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?