Violence is a symptom of impotence.

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

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?

Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.