I’d like to have enough time and quietTo think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soulBut it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.

I'm one of my sensations.

Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

Talk without the support of action means nothing.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

I write, but I also act.

I was writing this music for the people that sit in the back pew of the church. People that do come, but it's not quite in their hearts.

It's not me trying to act or pose in a certain way. It's a lifestyle - like a suaveness or a swag, per se.

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

Beauty that comes naturally, is the most natural beauty of all.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.