Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

The three main leads [in Townies] were Lauren [ Graham] and Jenna [Elfman] and Molly [Ringwald], and then Ron Livingston was on it as well. There was a lot of people to write funny stuff for.

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

When life gets blurry, adjust your focus.