It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.

The unlived life isn't worth examining.

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.

If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup.

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly.