Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next.

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.

Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.

What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...

Stated to a running back after an overly exuberant display of celebration: Next time you make a touchdown act like you've been there before.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.

Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.

I've never felt a push to be stick thin. I work out and eat healthy, so mostly it's about being in shape and having energy.

Responsibility can never be given. It can only be taken.