Henry David Thoreau

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

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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.

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

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.