...Going into the unknown means returning to the known is a bewitching sweetness. Adventure doesn't always require a sturdy backpack.

Tea drinking is a liturgy of comfort, and we partake of it everywhere in the world. It’s a ceremony of simplicity, nourishment for both the nomads in foreign teahouses and homebodies in their beds.

It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case.

I love you the way a knife loves a heart, the way a bomb loves a crowd, the way your mother warned you about, essentially.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

He who is greedy is always in want.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

Even though it might appear otherwise from what I've said, I am not a racist. I should not have said what I did because it is not what I believe in my heart.

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

Any victory would be dear at such a price.

You can take away the money and the fame. I don't look at myself as any of those things.