However, an artist is limited only by his own skill and imagination. He’s in total control of his art. Whereas nature is the artist here, and I merely try to interpret and manage her design.

The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.

Enlightenment is the AWARENESS that ALL is ONE and ONE is ALL. Ignorance is the illusion of separateness.

There is no alternative to action, and that requires faith. The issue is how we are to mold for ourselves a belief system that is worthy of life.

You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn’t worry?

What is it like.... what is it like to be dead?' Evan looked at him with his dull, unblinking blue eyes, ' I don't know, what is it like...... to be alive?

A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

I would run through brick walls for Spurs.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time." Thank you. Do you want something?