Everybody is worth everything.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

You can ask goodness in, show it how much you like it, make room for it. And it says, "Oh, I like this place, I think I'll stay here." Which is why people go into one house and say, "I want to take my shoes off." At another house, no matter how beautiful it is, they might say, "Hmm, I can't stay."

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.