I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore relationships that way. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence.

I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.

No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.