Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

I love all kinds of insects, and I’ve heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

I write some country music. There’s a song called ‚I Hope You Dance.‘ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

What’s important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it’s very high-quality oil, so very valuable.

‚Mystic River‘ just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

A cherub’s face, a reptile all the rest.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.