I found in Rick Rubin a kindred soul. When I visited his home and looked in his library, I saw he was reading the very same New Age books I had picked up the month before.
Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.
Once we got to know each other, we had such similar impulses. We saw in a similar way, and we developed a strong friendship. We would talk on the phone for hours, philosophically and theologically, about all of these issues.
So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.
