No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!