“I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and Ill be free.”

“In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.”

“Lo, each subculture has its own language, and verily I am not a parody. You dont believe me? Get with the program, crackpot!”

“Although you can not hear my thoughts, Sam, I imagine Im talking to you. Prayers to the brother who abandoned me. The day after you left Labrador, my honey started flowing. Is my body weeping for y...”

“As a man Id been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.”

“Sam believes now that people repeatedly collide with each other swiftly, brutally not to produce children but to shatter their sense of self, and be thrust into a creative space beyond reason, whe...”

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

“Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection, wherever the earth is not bereft of four-footed life - that to the white man is an 'unbroken wi...”

“Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations.”

“A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.”

“I wish I were a rock,' he said, and he became a rock.”

“Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.”