Essentially, all life depends upon the soil

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.

Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.

Civilization has its roots in the soil.

In the light, our hearts only knows love.

People don't like it when you say real things.

Cowboy!" she hollered.Every man on the street turned to stare at her."--pg.117

I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence.

vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas.