Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it.

Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

Great towers take time to construct.

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.

Im the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems like its open season on her.

To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.