We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.

I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them.

Get ready for the future: it is murder.

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

We actually lead very violent, passionate lives and I think that we're hungry for insights into this condition. That's why we get all that stuff on television. It's really where we are, really what we are.