Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.

The one thing ... maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open.

Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.