If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. To the compromise is anxiety.

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

A Halloween flower, if ever there was one, would smell like an onion, have thorns like a rose.With charcoal black petalsand vines that entangle, t'would grow under moonlightin mud, I suppose.

And the sea trickling out of my eye as if I'd always carried it inside me, like a seashell waiting to be cupped to an ear.

I'm in mourning for my life.

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.

The truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?

I stopped worrying about the start. The end is what's important.