A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.

Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.

Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it.

It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.

You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.

Most of us are never seen, not clearly, and when we are we likely jump and run.

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

Spending time being can be just as, if not more, fulfilling as spending time doing.

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

He presented justice as a psychological relief.

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.