The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

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

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.

There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our st idity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.