The arts are not a way to make a living.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Traveling is like dancing lessons from God.

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy tribe, but there's a wonderful quotation from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said, Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism. Something perfectly is going on. I do not doubt it, but the explanations I hear do not satisfy me.

I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was.