He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

We were immortal, did you know that? Did you feel it like me? We had the world at our feet and we were going to live forever. Then came life – growing inside you – and I became mortal.

If you don't appreciate your customers, someone else will.

He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

I spend a lot of my life in back of cars - Oops! I didn't mean that in the way it sounded. Like hence the two kids.

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.