#quotesfrombooks

The earth calls. The soil, the rocks, the clay. It calls to us to remind us, to make sure we remember. The earth will ultimately win. It always does. We will, all of us, end our lives here. Even the birds.

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

We’ve been married since 1975. We’ve had many, many more happy days than sad or angry ones. We met in the library at Yale Law School one evening and started chatting, and all these years later, that conversation is still going strong. There’s no one I want to talk to more than him.

“It’s fear that that makes men write foolish rules that say you can’t travel alone or ride as you wish to.” “Why should they be afraid? The world belongs to them.” “But think of all the things we might achieve if we were allowed to do the things that they do.”

Perhaps that's what life is about -- the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order to explain it, or contain it. Simply in order to fed it. Because in that recognition of the sublime, we see for a moment the entire universe in the palm of our hand. And in that moment, we touch the face of God.