Henry David Thoreau

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.