Let the flesh instruct the mind.

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans. And when we were in tropical places and places of those flowers and trees that grow in Louisiana, I would think of it acutely and I would feel for my home the only glimmer of desire I felt for anything outside my endless pursuit of art.

It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.