"Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite." — Jim Harrison

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a funeral-parlor waiting room.