What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.

The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.

The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.Good.They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?