"To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment."

“Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.”

“I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.”

“My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.”

“Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.”

“For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals,”

“Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene, just as always, and it seemed to last a tiny forever, just like that, a snapshot of them all on the curved parabola of a starting line, eight giant hearts attached to eight pairs of bellows-like lungs mounted on eight pairs of supercharged stilts. They were poised on the edge of some howling vortex they had run 10,000 miles to get to. Now they had to run one more”

“The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves ...”

“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”