Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt... Nothing except eating, if that, and the frenzy of the bed.