Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.