When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

I do not believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity, thank you.

When a change management fails, leadership change is brought in. A leadership change will always bring in change management

To give light to others, you must first take light from others!

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

A flat tax is roughly the same as a sales tax.

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

There were a lot of teen stars that were very cookie-cutter... I'm just being me.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.