We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

You change the world by being yourself.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

Smile to the future and it will smile back to you

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

She stared at the stars like they were pillow for her mind and in their light she could rest her heavy head.

Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is.

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

I'm very claustrophobic.

One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know.

I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.