Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

Try evolving as much as you cry.

We have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.

Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever.

I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.

Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

The people of Cyprus have sent a strong message...of stability, credibility and change.

I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.