“The game enforces smirks; but we have seenThe moon in lonely alleys makeA grail of laughter of an empty ash can,And all through the sound of gaiety and questHave heard a kitten in the wilderness.”

“Have you ever heard silence? It is not a stillness which is the absence of sound. Silence is not empty, it is full of content. It is like the sky―intangible yet containing the stars, the sun, the moon, and all existence. That is silence and it is full of tongues.”

“And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely.”

“We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.”

“Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat”

“I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can”