The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.

A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it

East of the sun and west of the moon.

It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty and working for love.

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.But you also get kind of used to it.

She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But there was no way there.

Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one.

If silence is to be broken, let it be with the majesty of music.

When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.

If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.

I don't understand the problem with paroling Charles Manson? I say set him free and let him get on with his work. I have a long list of celebrities I'd be glad to share with him.

I don't drink anymore. That's a huge - that's a massive - difference in my life. It's made a huge change in my touring.

The pain pushes you, until the vision pulls you

I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!