It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, if you're going to San Francisco, you're gonna meet some gentle people there.

No amount of anxiety or worry is going to make any difference to anything that's going to happen anyway, so why let yourself feel so heavy?

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.