Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and I followed them, unwittingly.

Reality is a changeless concept that only perception can mask.

This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet the water falling in the fountain the girl's voice ... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.

I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.