Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.