The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized.

I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.

I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.

Peter Beard Quotes