Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.

We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers...we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left better than we found it.

I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them.

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

...when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.

Apologizing is like spring cleaning.

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness.

...how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you?

There is never enough time for fun.

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of these fields of attention.

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord -- and shotgun do your stuff

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.

In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

I am glad you are come. When I was in England I desired that some one would speak the Great Word to me. I will go up and speak to the wise men of our nation, and I hope they will hear.