“Passion is for the bedroom, spontaneous without restraint, killing is a matter of patience and design.”

“Half of love is restraint. Patience and respect. Don’t waste your time on the unworthy.”

“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”

“There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.”

“Products produced cheaply create ugly work lives and ugly households and ugly communities. Profits produced quickly cannot purchase patience and care. Patience is beautiful. Restraint and care are beautiful. Peace is beautiful. A small, diversified organic farm is beautiful.”

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”