“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”

“A hurt body and mind arent just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion. That my mind had been as badly hurt as my bod...”

“Pain is the biggest power of love." That's what Wireman says.”

“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. ”

“I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don't we? We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”

“Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil...”

“Blood memory is described as our ancestral (genetic) connection to our language, songs, spirituality, and teachings. It is the good feeling that we experience when we are near these things.”

“The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not, as it was for my father, the relation to my neighbors that a lawn implied; it was the lawns rel...”

“We having so much fun together!! 'through nature..through people..through religion...through culture..through friendship...we manage to learn something that lead to a better relationship among huma...”