The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers.

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.

At Nature's Kitchen we take pride in saying that we wouldn't serve anything to your children that we wouldn't feed to our own children.

Life’s short when compared to eternity, but eternity is only worth it because of life.

Life is so spine chillingly beautiful.

Voyager upon life's sea: - To yourself be true And whate'er your lot may be Paddle your own canoe.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

Living in Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in now.

Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.

Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.