The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

I feel I should not be ... so at the mercy of people's regard. And yet - it is the artist's desire for communication too; without the answering voice you get so numb; you lose faith in your powers to communicate.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.