Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.

Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.

To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not where the thinking is done.