I've always felt somewhat out of place with other kids my own age", said River. "I was constantly reminded by people's reaction to our names and our diet that we seemed weird to them.

We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Run to the rescue with love/and peace will follow

I’ve learned that if you can’t get it all together to accomplish this thing called peace, you do at least your part in your life, because that’s where you can truly make an immediate difference.

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

In simplicity there is truth.

Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.

Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be on of the spokespeople on their behalf.

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

A masterpiece is a piece that masters things.

I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them.

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

I’m not 'aw shucks'. Because I'm gnarly.

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

Art is a Verb, not a Noun.

I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest.