Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.