Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind.

The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.

So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.