Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.