Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.

What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.