The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing by yourself at 2 A.M.

My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.

Holistic wisdom is the hallmark of the holistic mindset.

No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.

You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.

Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done.

The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment.

I hope that I am still racing at 50, as long as I can get out of bed.

Even in the forty years that I have been practicing Karate, the changes have been many. It would be interesting to be able to go back in time, to the point when the kata were created, and study them.

I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money.

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.