The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

There is no reason for beauty. It just is.

I've been thinking a lot aboit the energy of the universe. And if energy can't ever be created or destroyed, only transferred, what do you think happens to people's energy once they die?

It's everything and nothing ... It's like the absent moment between night and day.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

Resting in this moment, we have no age.

A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.