The person who makes all cares into one care the care for simply staying present will be cared for by that presence which is creative love.

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.