It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.

The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.