A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

Prayers are offered up daily - without charge... Refreshments are served when demanded.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.