For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a real shamanistic value. I can handle drugs. I've never had a problem.

I realize that people need something to believe in.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.

So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.