We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

We make the path by walking.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

I think no matter how much you learn, there's always more to learn.

Most of us do not 'sculpt' our lives. We accept what comes our way, then we gripe about it.

Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.