It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.

I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift and dream like a lazy stream And walk barefoot across sunshine days.

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide.

Don't you know That lovers make the rains, Call forth the sun, Re-route hurricanes, And exorcise earthquakes for fun.

I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers / To hear the rain fall on dry leaves / And chat a bit with death across foggy nights.

There are men too gentle to live among wolves.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.

I have no past--the steps have disappeared the wind has blown them away.

I was born to catch dragons in their dens / And pick flowers / To tell tales and laugh away the morning / To drift and dream like a lazy stream / And walk barefoot across sunshine days.

What is life if not laughter and love, caring and compassion, fresh bread and crisp radishes?

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.

The one thing I couldn't identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.

I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.

There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.

I want to go as far as it will take me. I would love to go pro, but if that doesn't happen, I am a gourmet chef and would like to open my own restaurant.

God never does anything accidentally.

We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.