Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

In the end, we'll all become stories.

I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife.

Gardening is not a rational act.