You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.

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.

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

In efforts to soar above our nature we invariably fall below it.

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

Right now I really enjoy writing songs.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.

Think of yourself as a role model for others-showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!

The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.