I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.