My mind is lovely as a spruce, and I and those that love me make it mine.

When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less.

Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know.

We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves.

When you co-operate with an injustice, then a little bit of your spirit dies.

We are all trying to get the exact style of ouuselves.

The machines are too dull when weare lion-poems that move & breathe.

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

No one loves an archive better than I do. I can smell a good one half-a-block away - all that brittle papyrus dust is music to my nostrils.

Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

Walls work both ways. They keep people out...but they keep people in, too.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by.

The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars.

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.