Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.

It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they go and gather and gossip. ...Whatever the circumstances the genius has put you into, the fact of individuality defends the soul against all class-action claims. No soul is mediocre, whatever your personal taste for conventionality, whatever your personal record of middling achievements.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change.

I think the worst atmosphere for a six-year-old is one in which there are no expectations whatsoever. That is, it's worse for the child to grow up in a vacuum where "whatever you do is alright, I'm sure you'll succeed." That is a statement of disinterest. It says, "I really have no fantasies for you at all."