Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever.

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.