It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

Art is about paying attention.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

The Earth orbits round tables.

I find that being considerate of others and keeping what I say and what I do in agreement makes for a great night's sleep.

Live today facing forward—with your back on yesterday, your eyes on tomorrow, and your head and heart in the moment.

I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that I worried a lot

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!

Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

We're going to take care of our military - the people in our military, the finest people we have.

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.