I said, 'I need to know how he died. ' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.
I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
The backbone of success is. . . hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.
He loved Big Brother.