Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.

I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.