Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad

I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.

the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.