Those who think of their house as only a ‘machine to live in’ should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who also lived in a house, but a house that embodied a cosmology.

What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

What we see in a democracy governed by “representatives” is not a government “for the people” but an organized conflict of interests that only results in the setting up of unstable balances of power.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

I'd done a pilot [of Townies] with Caroline Rhea [Pride & Joy] that didn't go anywhere.

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.

There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

You will never understand pleasure without pain.