This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country.

At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

You cannot love without intuition.

To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.