But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.