either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important. I simply can't think about anything else, that's all.

To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?

I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.