All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

Modern society becomes more and more complex by the day. What used to be traditional isn’t necessarily traditional anymore.

It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.

Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.

[Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.

I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be . . .

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what God has done in creation, this is in truth a divine work.