In this day and age, nobody can learn more than a sliver of all there is to know. Why force everyone to learn the same sliver?

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

It’s rather like the economic crash some years ago, many were impacted by it and their vibrational output slowed right down. They believed in the crash so were vacuumed in to it!

If you are able to introduce a white person to a new cheese, it's like introducing them to a future spouse.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

Roarke's brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve's body. In the manner of men or unfriendly male dogs, Roarke showed his teeth.

I don't know about ground rules; but I create the world that arrives with the characters or situation or voice in my head that instigates the piece, whatever form it may take.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.