Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony.

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

If you want to change the world, change the metaphor.

Facts are a strange thing . . . when you know the facts to be true, they turn you into a revolutionary.

The only thing that keeps me alive is the hope of dying young.

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

I can't sing or dance.

You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.

Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.