“Truth is beauty to the mind, beauty is truth to the heart.”

“A lie is not the absence of truth, but the illusion of truth.”

“The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.”

“Well, the cat is flourishing and gets more spoiled and more beautiful every day. His whiskers measure, from tip to tip, including his mouth and nose, of course, ten inches, pure white whale bone.”

“What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers bent on the most important work for the next century - a massive salvage operation to save the vulnerable but necessary pieces of nature and culture and to keep the good and artful examples before us. It is time for a new breed of artists to enter front and center, for the point of art, after all, is to connect. This is the homecomer I have in mind: the scientist, the accountant who converses with nature, a true artist devoted to the building of agriculture and culture to match the scenery presented to those first European eyes.”

“Be moved by a person's actions, not their words. Remember a sugar-coated lie sounds more convincing than the naked truth.”

“Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.”