There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.

Consciousness of the world itself is nature. And when you destroy nature you block off consciousness from the world.

Faith is trusting yourself to believe in uncertainties.

Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees.

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you.

Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.

Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.