"We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be."

"There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain."

"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."

"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."

"The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination."

"You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination."

"Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea."

"It is a timeless truth that the canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear — an essential principle for the reflective life."