It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Nothing left to do but smile.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

Enclosed within the tyranny of our minds and there is where we are lost.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

I like to think of myself as a physical actor.

Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again.

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country...with hope and delight.

When you are given immunity that means that you've probably committed a crime.

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

As was his language so was his life.