In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

The night before, a whole day could have shape and design. But when it was upon you, it could vanish tragically to air.

Believe in Eternity, believe in childhood, believe that the beauty of innocence lives on and on and on. I know it does.

football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

Trust allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their sources, and to bring to the light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that resist wholeness, that live in fear.

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

My daughter lived with my wife being ill since she was 2.

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

Be somebody for your kids to look up to.