I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

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

Everybody's serious but me.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.