New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.
Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean.
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.