A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.

Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.

Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development.

I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid.

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.

My god is narrative filmmaking.

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.

There's always little things that you can find to incorporate, I think, from your life, whether it be the exact circumstance or something similar that maybe brought up a similar emotion in you.

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

I've got really good people around me, and I feel really blessed to get to do everything I get to do, so to me it's a joy.

I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the question than I would be with an answer.

Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.