Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

...we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.

If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

While you are not responsible for the actions of another, you are able to consciously respond to everything in your reality. Your power to respond is your power to create.

Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.

Light is what we are called to preach. Our lord and saviour called himself light of the world.

It is in the combination of words and visuals that the magic of understanding often happens.

I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

For me, I'm a fan of really dark, depressing stuff. Even something like The Wire, which can be hugely depressing and really serious, the bits I always remember are the jokes, you know?

People love drama, and if you aren't really interested in perpetuating that, it keeps you from exploding on a mainstream stage. I'm totally fine with that.

While I am alive, I intend to live.

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

I like business, and the truth is I save way more than I spend. I invest. I plan for the future. I have a special eye for opportunities and work harder than anyone might expect.