"Love is . . . a madness most discreet"

“Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin' at all”

“The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.”

“I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.”

“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”

Source : "The Heart of Things".

“I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.”

Source : TV Times, January 19-25, 1991.

“For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.”

“Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (2010). “Rebecca Harding Davis's Stories of the Civil War Era: Selected Writings from the Borderlands”, p.20, University of Georgia Press

“We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and our planet's survival. Compassion must be translated into action.”