Pain or love or danger makes you real again....

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.

Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words.

Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we all woke up the next day feeling sorta sad and separate.

The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.

At least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth.

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

A heart full of grace is gift of gladness.

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.

Let's get rid of all our subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our agricultural subsidies together.

Women and men are equal human beings.

I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.

Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want to make one kind of sound.