There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.

I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.