Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.

You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.

A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.

It was a girl playing a harp, like in an orchestra. It was in this tree at our campsite. And since it was breezy weather that weekend, the girl's arms were almost always turning.

I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn't that hard at all.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.

Lately, I've become sort of a fatalist. Well, that was bound to happen.

Between thinking and seeing, there is a place called knowing.

When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.

Any time a boy is ready to learn about guns is the time he’s ready, no matter how young he is, and you can’t start too young to learn how to be careful.

You're the cutest thing that I ever did see I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree