I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country and there is still a kind of innocence in America that translates very well everywhere in the world.

None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the ones that came as suddenly as thunder.

As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

One of the interesting things about Los Angeles is that it's still supplying the whole of the world with its dreams through movies and songs and TV - often of an all-American family at the same time as the real Los Angeles is peopled by souls from Vietnam, Guatemala, and Korea who look nothing like the images being beamed out. I think all that is going to have to change and illusion is going to have to catch up with reality in that regard.