When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.

... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.