There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll do it my way.

Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories.

Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?

Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.

Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible.

When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

The instant people specialize, its in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you don't know, you can. It just takes a lot more work.

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it, I don't think I know quite enough to do it right.

We stand and fight for God’s truth and with the truth we will win

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

No matter the amount of knowledge and wisdom you acquire in life, you can never be wiser than wise itself.

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

In the one branch he most needed

Living with one woman is horrific.

Gratitude BRINGS MORE to be grateful about, so today I make the point of expressing gratitude for everything in my LIFE!

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.

My good friend Josh Bibby happens to be a pro skier and has used my music in 2 international ski films.