That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.

There are writers I know and respect who are very good about what's outside, and not too hot about what's inside.

Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.

We have to be realistic about the brutal demands a money culture puts on the psyche, and there is a great cost to this in terms of creativity. Look at the state of people at 65. How many of them become creative after having to survive in the money culture?

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

My spirit life very much depends on my work. My work very much depends on my spirit life. And I pray every day, as part of my own ritual, to a god I believe in, not a god somebody else believes in.

Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill, combined with the compulsion or longing or need or desire to give.