Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real.

During the day, the library is a realm of order.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?

I hate foreplay, I want to get straight to the point. My favourite position is on top so I can take control.

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

Cher is one of the most talented women I've ever met. She's got depth and emotion that haven't even been touched.

Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people.