It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.

I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.