The element of obsession is terribly important for an artist.

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.

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

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.

My spirit life is also the medium in which I live. It's not something that comes and goes. Without one the other wouldn't exist.

I require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by yourself in the mountains.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.