In POLITICS, it seems, retreat is honorable if DICTATED by military CONSIDERATIONS and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

We had that FIRST Marvel NOW! retreat where EVERYBODY came in and pitched their new books, which was probably the most exciting retreat I've EVER been to because it was all brand new.

You KNOW what else I've LEARNT? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I RETREAT, and I haven't come to any HARM yet.

I NEVER STOPPED studying Buddhism. In the past few YEARS, in between movies, I do a RETREAT.

The most important aspect of a HOME is that it's a RETREAT, a place where you can laugh and CRY.

I think a LOT of Hollywood is in retreat right now TRYING to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

I think about DEATH a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a BETTER form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't KNOW, I MEAN, I want to come back as a TREE but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

The temptations are great to SIMPLY retreat to the domain of PRIVATE LIFE and GIVE up on our public problems.

All basic scientists who look to the NCI for FUNDING should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of MODEL systems and the PURSUIT of fundamental biological PRINCIPLES.