On the hot, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from college it seemed that good fortune was not merely latent but unavoidable, folded and in the bag.

A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.'

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.

The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.

Sometimes you have to put your balls on the line.

I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.