I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

We all are motivated by deep impulses and deep appetites to serve, even though we may not be able to locate that which we are hoping to serve. So this is just a part of my nature and I think everybody else's nature to offer oneself at the critical moment when the emergency becomes articulate. It's only then that we can locate that willingness to serve.

Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.

What [Prozac] does is completely annihilate the sexual drive, so the question of passion hardly arises.

Everyone has a kind of magical system that they employ in the hopes that this will open up the channels.