What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for something when you compare and contrast it to something worse.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.