The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.

I am more or less reading all the time.

The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.

Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.