For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.

But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites

Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.

Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.

I've always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I chose to express myself.

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.