“Be of love a little more careful than of anything.”

“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”

“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.”

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”