‎I am something that was. and I am something that not yet..

The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and w….

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read..

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life..

According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings..

Anything that is stifled will eventually ferment or explode..

Those who are dead are not dead They're just living in my head..

Nobody can hear you read music..

I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places….

Everything I do, I do for love..

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition..

Michael Jackson is everywhere. I can't not listen to what we did because it's everywhere. I listen to it all the time whether I want to or not..

You can't find what you don't go looking for..

What's it going to be then, eh?.

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there..

Life begins when we decide it's going to begin for us..

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up..

Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time..

Putin is somebody who really respects strength..

Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradi….

I don't like myself, and I don't like to be looked at..