Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)