My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision is our friend. Our best friend. I love revision.

Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.In your writing and your life.

What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?

Ask your wife for forgiveness, even when you’re right.

The finger in the jar atop the entertainment center served as a reminder: death was far kinder than the fate Juanita could have suffered at the hands of that other man.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economies (networks of local economic interdependency).

It was just a mercy f**k, as it was our 30th anniversary. They gave Grammy to us for a cover of somebody else's song. It would have a lot more meaning if it had been for one of our songs.

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, its silly.

I don't smoke, I try to eat right, and I love doing yoga and going for hikes with my dog.