We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'