We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!

We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.

Dreams are essential to life.

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.