The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

The cancer of time is eating us away

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.