I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun.

The only question that really counts, must be thins one: are things getting better or are they getting worse?

It's good for me to see so many other people who are not me. That there are so many others. I feel affection for them. Most of them are doing the best they can. I am also doing the best I can.

I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.

…I don’t wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk.

Something is going to have to happen. Not necessarily something big. Just something.

I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.

Everything which is human is alien to me.

There are too many confusing things present. Things I know. Thoughts I have. Sarcasm. Things I think I ought to be doing and places I ought to be going. Always other places.

Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.

Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!

Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.

I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

The difference between God and the Devil, is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the Devil is to convince children that light meat tastes good.

The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning.

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Exhilarating. Radical Grace moved me to tears with its portrayal of good people putting their beliefs into action in ways that transcend all ideological boundaries.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.