I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Hope in God makes a happy heart.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

Every crowd has a silver lining.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

We all have levels of performance.

Posing is a performing art.

I'm wired to be neurotic and loud and high-strung.

Traitors! I shall oppose you in the name of the Han!

Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one.