The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now.

In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.

To love the creations of the Earth is to worship the Being who created them.

Anyway, that's the past, and what matters is the future. That's how life works, because it's short and precious and kind of doubtful.

A positive mind-set says that you are not a victim to the whims of others or by circumstances over which you have no control.

Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear.

We spend our years as a tale that is told.

He who has wealth has friends.

I had no Freedom. I had nothing.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.