One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.

When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.

I don't have a problem with anybody in Toronto.

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

Nobody is accidentally in Alaska. The people who are in Alaska are there because they choose to be, so they've sort of got a real frontier ethic. The people are incredibly friendly, interesting, smart people - but they also stay out of each other's business.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

Hope is a belief in a better tomorrow.

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

We murdered them 0-0.

The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?

So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.

I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

Ye are brothers, ye are men, and we conquer but to save.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

Red, electric blue - the only color I don't wear is green, which I still don't wear. I wear certain color greens, but I have such yellow skin so I always like to wear bold colors.

I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.

Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.

My husband has some very interesting hobbies, and through him, I've learned to fly and earned my pilot's license. Together, we fly all over the United States. Since our children are all grown now, we also travel a great deal in Europe, but we take commercial flights because our plane is not really equipped to make transatlantic flights.