I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.

If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

There's more private security in the United States than there are publicly funded forces, like police. What you don't want is a meld of government and commerce - you really want to keep those two things separate - because once you have that meld, you've got megacorruption, and you have no third force to whom you can say this stuff is poisoning our kids.

Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?