Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?

We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in.

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

We continually use stories to hold up as mirrors to ourselves.

What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight in the temperate zones, in the most beautiful house.

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.

In a story, nothing is real until it is acted upon.

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.

One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving.

We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration light out after it with a club.

As one widow put it to me, “Strength doesn’t mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.

Each man must make is own sacred journey.

Aures habent et non audient' - 'They have ears but hear not

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

I was inbred into the game by my father

Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.

The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.