I still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I recognized what I had, and I never sold it short. And I ain't through yet.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

We must create our own world.

I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.

Character is the architect of the being.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.