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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Awareness is learning implemented.

I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

Love is what you make it and who you make it with.

I have always been a combination of both security and insecurity.

I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle.

The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

In the Mexican repertoire there's a lot of super delicious things you can do with vegetables and beans and grains and all that sort of stuff. So I can do this thing.

When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.