The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs... where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you-beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.