The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

What is essential does not die but clarifies.