Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

There is enough work for everyone.

A man who is depleted by worry is he who natural immunity is reduced

I had sadness for breakfast.

The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

Yes, Im a New Yorker, born and bred. While Im not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

Love all creatures! Love everything that has life!

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.