In no other sport must the spectator move.
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.
Any technology is just a skillful means and it's how you use it.
I'm concerned about the overuse of spectacular places. And there's no real wilderness left and so there's a heartbreak there. You can go anywhere and be rescued through your cell phone and have some helicopter drop down.
The dichotomies, the brokenness of the culture around things like the Vietnam war, and then a lot of it has to do with war and where we put our energy and money and attention. And the military industrial complex, which dominates our whole economy. Even with the vision of democracy in other places we know the dark side.
My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and there is deep pleasure in that intimacy, a mind-to-mind transfer going on. All the music is there, inherently. And mystery as well.
I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.