It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to find the whole universe embodied and enshrined in the living image of another! Adolescent, we say. Rot! This is the germ of the future life, the seed which we hide away, which we bury deep within us, which we smother and stifle and do our utmost to destroy as we advance from one experience to another and flutter and flounder and lose our way.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.

Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?

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