My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.

The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good & bad, right & wrong, yours & mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, 'the dance of life,' metamorphosis.

I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know. We will realize it the moment we open our eyes. We don't have to make it a Paradise-it is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it. The man with the gun, the man with murder in his heart, cannot possibly recognize Paradise even when he is shown it.

Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.