There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.

I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.

The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.

Enlightenment is the transformation that brings out the highest human qualities. It is the process that removes the clouds of negativity and brings the colors of peace, compassion and kindness.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Only the past is real.

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.

I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

I would like to go fishing and catch a fish stick. That would be convenient. I could easily get a job at Mrs. Paul's.

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.