Well if God wanted a broken spirit out of me, He would get Hiswish. At this point in my life the only thing I could do was look up.

Where your heart is, there lies your treasured home.

If I send all the books that I faithfully wrote overseas, would that, for any chance, be considered work-shipping??

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

By my hand and for the good of the state

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.

Virtue is the truest liberty.

It is hard to produce work in New York. You kind of have to center yourself - do some Zen meditation exercises and just focus. It is very distracting, and money, of course, is an issue.