We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.

Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.

My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.

Art is an artificial organization of experience.

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

Every man prays in his own language.

Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

You know, if a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough. Acid and peyote were that way for me.

To me an anthology gives meaning to the phrase, "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Even if those individual parts are really f-ing hot.

The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.

Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.