Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations.

Those who die with their music still on their tongues unsung are trying to say “God had made a deal with the wrong customer like me

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.

Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is.

The experience you have making the movie is all you have; when the movie's finished, that's for other people. But while you're doing it, that's your time on the planet, so you want it to be good.

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.