When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.

There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.

Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development

I get to see the world and try to make people happy. I'm very much of a wandering spirit, if you'll pardon the expression.

Richard Pilbrow's lighting can turn a coin into an asteroid and an idea into an apparition.

I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.