A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Gratitude is a way of creativity.

Pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire.

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

There is only one happiness in life to love and be loved.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

Not merely what we do, but what we try to do and why, are the true interpreters of what we are.

I've got to put forward a very strong conservative voice, advocate for conservative values and advocate for principle in politics to restore faith in politics.

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.