Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention...

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.

It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.

I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite.

Live life as a series of revelations

The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.

Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.

African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.