Running cleared the day's cobwebs from my mind and focused my thinking, and gave me time and space to sort out anything that was bothering me, or to detach and think of nothing at all.

Some people die, others just run out of fuel.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.

I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.