"I find more peace with you."

“Remember also: beyond the restless flowing electricity of life is the ultimate reality- The Void. Your own awareness, not formed into anything possessing form or color, is naturally void. The Final Reality. The All Good. The All Peaceful. The light. The Radiance. The movement is the fire of life from which we all come. Join it. It is part of you.”

“I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.”

Source : America Online Interview, steelydanreader.com. November 17, 1994.

“I've had opportunities before to run for office - the Republicans recruited me when I was surgeon general, to run for Congress, to run against Gov. Napolitano. But I didn't feel it was my calling... I felt, 'Well, I'm flattered, but I really would rather stay and be the doctor of the nation and stay as surgeon general.'”

“I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.”

“…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.”

“I'm interested in the ongoing war between the individual and community. That inner dissent against whatever group is surrounding you. No one wants to cede their selfhood to a group, right? And yet no one can exactly live outside the group, either. Even the most obstinate survivalist probably lives in some telepathic communion with all the other obstinate survivalists out there in the woods.”

Source : "Jon Raymond’s Californian Epic". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2017.

“Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.”

“I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.”