Other times when I hear the wind blowI feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soulBut it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.

I'm one of my sensations.

Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

I’d like to have enough time and quietTo think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

Do what is right not what is convenient.

When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.

I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

It's hard to say what I meant by "as we know it." I'm not about to go up on a mountain on new year's eve and wait for the lightening to strike.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

Right now, huge numbers of people cannot obtain even drinking water, and the situation is likely to become worse with predicted climate change and failure to take the actions that are necessary.