Peter Coyote Quotes
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Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.
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My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it.
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Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.
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Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.
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Acting is the way I make my living.
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My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as I still do, gathering impressions.
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My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.
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We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.
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One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964.
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When I was young and growing up in New York, my parents took me to children's theater quite often - elaborate presentations of 'Goldilocks' and 'Rapunzel' for Upper East Side kids. As I grew older, they took me to adult theater, mostly musicals.
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I've always been a writer.
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When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.
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I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.
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The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.