I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.

I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.

Everything went back to normal and there is nothing in it for me as such.

There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.

Dare to travel on new path.

It isn't our position but our disposition that makes us happy.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

Small businesses have made the call that to stay alive, health care isn't something they can provide. I think it's a tragic calculation.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.