There's always a nice tune [on radio] - helps you get the dishes done . I like to get the news from time to time - not too often. I don't feel deprived.

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just want to argue the matter through and through." It is a common mistake, to think you're going to go into some kind of spiritual practice and you're going to be relieved of the human burdens, from human crosses like thought, jealousy, despair - in fact, if anything, these feelings are amplified.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

I turned my back on the devil, turned my back on the angel too.

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.