The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot of the movies we watch.

Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken.

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.