- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.