Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.

Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.