The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)

There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.

This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.

The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.