In Latin America, you don’t do things for the money because there is no money.

I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics

It was tough going. His world was in the grips of the last Ice Age. In Southern Africa it was drier than now, water was difficult to obtain and so were animals.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity

I don’t see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don’t see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.