We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.

What appears strange and complex becomes stranger and more complicated once you begin to investigate it. That's the true nature of the world.

people who ran away are friends!

Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.

a city is all about how you look at it

My dear, you are not one person. You have many people in you, and each one can ask only some kinds of questions.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to be who you are. This is the basis of all healing.

It's better to just plough ahead. And if I say something they don't get, I just make fun of myself for assuming that everybody knows everything about where I live.

we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

The best weapons of a Jew are his prayers.

It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.