The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.

There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning.

This far north the sun was still up, although very low, riding through the mountains as if looking for something it lost on the ground.

The life of an animal lies outside of conjecture. It is far beyond the scientific papers and the campfire stories. It is as true as breath. It is important as the words of children.

Like any stage of the hydrologic process, we have our own peculiarities, our organs making us nothing more than water pools or springs of bizarre shape, filled with pulsing tubes and chambers.

An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.

Heaven for climate hell for company.

I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.

They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.

So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.

Half the people in the world have never made a phone call... half.