I think when I'm 80 years old, 85, hopefully, I'll be pushed around in a wheelchair by a red-headed nurse with panty outline. She'll make me little tequila sunrises and I'll read my complete works then. Then, I'll decide whether I think I've done something good or not. I'll reserve my judgment until then.

I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle--even though it cannot be solved--is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine.

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

We are seldom as limited as we think we are.

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.