I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.