Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Our language one of our most precious natural resources deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands streams and whooping cranes.

A mouse is small and can go unnoticed: but there is no limit to what a brave heart and a fearless spirit can achieve.

Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?

But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.

Sunspots and cosmic rays have a 79 percent correlation with our thermometer record since 1860. Meanwhile the CO2 correlation is a mere 22 percent.

Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.

It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

I like the feeling of keeping people off-balance and having the audience not knowing where I'm coming from or keeping that mysterious.

What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.

I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.