Henri Frederic Amiel

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

Homosexuality is anti-humanity.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.