Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

I'm a free soul who hates paying attention to things I am not interested in. Consequently, I have rarely been comfortable in the role of 'employee.'

I am inclined to believe that if there can be a meaningful human right to any material thing, surely it starts with access to minimum clean freshwater.

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

I believe that in music and in a lot of things it's kind of like surfing, you can have a really big wave sometimes and then you can have a smaller wave.

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

If I can just stop being so stressed out, maybe my cancer will get better! This is far less scary than treating a disease of unknown etiology.

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Live how we can, yet die we must.