To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.

In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.

The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

In my dreams I sleep with everybody.