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

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.

I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat.

Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts and sacred art. That is what I would call a direct culture, in that everybody in it is directly in touch with all the elements, both of the culture and of the environment.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

People are judged continuously everywhere on the most intimate level by the prices on their head. Most of them accept the judgment. It's very hard to have self-respect, or to maintain a state of creativity under these conditions.