things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

New gods arise when they are needed.

What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?

The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

No one can take your joy away from you, unless you willingly give it to them through repeated negative interpretations of your experiences.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

I'm a Hawaiian shirt guy. I've made that life decision.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.

More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.

It is hard to deal with someone who smiles and pretends to like you to your face and sticks that eight inch blade in your back when you turn around.