It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his work may be, and this is visible in his face, figure, stance, movement, and totality.

Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.

I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just forcing myself not to go berserk, just trying to see truth in the lie, to see it in full context, and in a dimension in which it has got to be more than just a lie, possibly the profoundest kind of truth.