Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

I’d been so caught up in surviving and staying free, that I'd forgotten that freedom was a state of mind.

The case for interconnectedness between conscious human lives is hard to deny.

There’s no such thing as fiction or imagination, as they’re merely non-fiction manifestations in the wrong parallel universe.

You can't live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they've got to rethink the whole basis of how they're going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

I’m just doing what i like and people can just enjoy it. There’s nothing more than that.

I am freaking out! I am freaking out, man!

For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.

People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.