Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive.

Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.

In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs.

…not a fighter… an adventurer. He doesn’t attack, he engages; He doesn’t defend, he expands; He doesn’t destroy, he transforms; He doesn’t reject, he explores; ….