I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

I cheat on my books a lot, which is not a good thing because it's good to stick with one book and get to the end of it, but I'm a book philanderer.

I don't like guys my age because they are normally either married or divorced and grumpy, fat and balding.

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

Every time I reach a new peak, I see a new one I want to climb.

I've studied Kabbalah, as you know, for many years, so there are a lot of things I do that one would associate with practising Judaism. I hear the Torah every Saturday. I observe Shabbat. I say certain prayers. My son was bar mitzvahed. So this appears like I'm Jewish, but these rituals are connected to what I describe as the Tree of Life consciousness and have more to do with the idea of being an Israelite, not Jewish.