The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.

But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.

Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.