The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure.
Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.
Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.