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.

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

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.

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

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.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory let us now commit it to life.

God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.

Trump's immigration positions do not deserve a response because they are so outlandish. If you force me to give you three words to describe them they would be: ludicrous, impractical and racist.

If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion.

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.

Sam," she said, and I crushed her to me.

I only see what I want to see. Winners see winning, Losers see losing. You are what you think you are.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.