Jordan has a strange haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

I wasn't afraid of getting old because I was never a great beauty.

I believe that history has shape order and meaning that exceptional men as much as economic forces produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty nobility and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

Whenever at a party I have been in the mood to study fools I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable you can't possibly act and as I only care about acting I think beauty can be a great handicap.

If you don't die of thirst there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness which we all yearn for or you can do the beauty of minutiae the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music or Neil Young.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless and the other half discreditable.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration or rather obliterates all consideration.