The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. It's scary to think about. Point of reference again. When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.