I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.
Art is an artificial organization of experience.
Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.
Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.
We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.
It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.
Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this with vaginal jelly, and I have to say when I first heard this that I was rather shocked, because he was quite gentlemanly.
And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.
Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the stage marks the departure from truly living your part and the beginning of exaggerated false acting. Therefore, no matter how much you act, how many parts you take, you should never allow yourself any exception to the rule of using your own feelings. To break that rule is the equivalent of killing the person you are portraying, because you deprive him of a palpitating, living, human soul, which is the real source of life for a part.
I sleep so much better at night, knowing that America is protected from thin pickles and fast ketchup.