Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

Let Christ’s great commission become yours

Talent alone can't give you a gold medal.There is practise, there is hard work and there is a will to succeed.

I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

Often, I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride.

From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

There's just no concept of layering a thick-sleeved sweater under a coat in L.A. A coat is more of a gesture than a necessity. You know, in case the temperature goes down to 55 degrees.