Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.

The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.