The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person.
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.