The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.