I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

It is your duty in life to save your dream.

Happiness is an angel with a serious face

What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

You are not alive unless you know you are living.

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

We live in a time when we have a communal duty to receive and broadcast love. We must set aside our repeating arguments and get a handle on our destructive depressions.pg vi

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

To the astrologer, or at least to what I call the analytical astrologer, the natal chart virtually represents a living map to the kingdom of heaven which lies within.

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change.

Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings.