I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photographs. I'm sure that doesn't work for many people.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in them - gruesome stuff. I had them all around the house, and if someone couldn't relate to it in some artistic way and instead just said "Yuck," then there probably wouldn't have been anywhere for us to go.

Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes.

I've always maintained that all characters and all personalities are in all of us. The whole thing is available. You're not this or that, no one is.